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Borelli's on the Movement of Animals - on the Natural Motions Resulting from …
This volume provides an introduction to Borelli’s theory on the movement of animals and describes his theory and scientific experiments relating to the natural movements of bodies in a fluid environment. It describes in great detail why and how bodies which present with different magnitudes, weights and shapes move at a greater or a smaller velocity in certain proportion in the fluid environm…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-08536-4
- Collation
- XIV, 292
- Series Title
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
- Call Number
- 900
Borelli's on the Movement of Animals - on the Force of Percussion
This volume provides an introduction to Borelli’s theory on the movement of animals and demonstrates the nature of the energy of percussion, its causes, properties and effects. Building on and moving away from the theory of mechanics as formulated by Aristotle and Galileo and countering objections expressed by Stephani degli Angeli among others, Borelli presents a completely mechanical accoun…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-08497-8
- Collation
- XXXVIII, 220
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 900
Capitalism and Cloves : An Archaeology of Plantation Life on Nineteenth-Centu…
This study of nineteenth-century clove plantations on Zanzibar provides an important contribution to debates in global historical archaeology. Broadening plantation archaeology beyond the Atlantic World, this work addresses plantations run by Omani Arab colonial rulers of Zanzibar. Drawing on archaeological and historical data, this book argues for the need to examine non-Western contexts of co…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-4419-8471-5
- Collation
- XIII, 256
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 900
Media : On the Motion of Inanimate Objects in Aristotle’s Physics and On th…
This book presents a recasting of Aristotle’s theory of spatial displacement of inanimate objects. Aristotle’s claim that projectiles are actively carried by the media through which they move (such as air or water) is well known and has drawn the attention of commentators from ancient to modern times. What is lacking, however, is a systematic investigation of the consequences of his suggest…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-21263-0
- Collation
- XVII, 118
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 900
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