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Chapter Five: The Recovery of Ancient Mechanics
Beginning in the mid-fifteenth century, Italian humanists recovered and printed the Greek texts of the Aristotelian Mechanical Problems and Pappus of...
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The Renaissance of Mechanics Ancient Science in the Age of Humanism
This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, and its...
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Materializing the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics Instruments and the First Bell Tests
This book offers a history of the instrumentation used to materialize the early thought experiments devised in the Einstein-Bohr disputes over the...
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Chapter Nine: Galileo Galilei and Hero’s Lost Principles
In his Theoremata circa centrum gravitatis solidorum, Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) demonstrated his mastery of Archimedean mechanical geometry by...
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Introduction
So wrote the engineer Filippo Pigafetta in the preface to his 1581 translation of Guidobaldo dal Monte’s Mechanicorum liber. By the time Pigafetta...
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Chapter Three: The Alexandria Quartet
After Archimedes, the city of Alexandria became a centre for Greek mechanics, where Ctesibius, Philo of Byzantium, Hero, and Pappus worked. Although...
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Chapter Eight: Guidobaldo dal Monte and Hero’s Machines
In his Mechanicorum liber of 1577, Guidobaldo dal Monte took up from Pappus Hero’s program of the five simple machines and adopted the mechanical...
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Chapter Six: Niccolò Tartaglia and the Science of Weights
Niccolò Tartaglia (b. 1499/1500) adopted the Aristotelian Mechanical Problems as his model and attempted to found its treatment of the balance on the...
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Chapter One: Devices and Desires
In Greek antiquity a machine was any marvellous device or stratagem that worked against nature to accomplish some human purpose or to satisfy some...
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Wave Mechanics—A Pet Subject of the Sommerfeld School, 1926–1928
Arnold Sommerfeld gave only a lukewarm response to “matrix mechanics,” as Werner Heisenberg’s quantum achievement of 1925 was called; in contrast,...
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Chapter Four: The Medieval Science of Weights
Most of the ancient Greek mechanical texts were translated into Arabic in the early Middle Ages, where they gave rise to the science of weights (on...
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Homage to Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica 1644–2024 Text, Transcription, Commentaries and Selected Essays as New Historical Insights
Evangelista Torricelli exemplifies the use the moderns made of the ancients' mathematical methods. Celebrating Evangelista Torricelli's monumental Oper...
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Chapter Two: Archimedes Mechanicus
Archimedes of Syracuse (ca. 287–212 B.C.) was, by reputation at least, the most accomplished mechanic of antiquity. He was also perhaps the first to...
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Analyzers
This chapter discusses the development of the analyzers used in Bell tests and what we can learn about the strategies physicists used to test quantum...