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Aristotle's Science of Matter and Motion by Christopher Byrne Pdf
Although Aristotle's contribution to biology has long been recognized, there are many philosophers and historians of science who still hold that he was the great delayer of natural science, calling him the man who held up the Scientific Revolution by two thousand years. They argue that Aristotle never considered the nature of matter as such or the changes that perceptible objects undergo simply as physical objects; he only thought about the many different, specific natures found in perceptible objects. Aristotle's Science of Matter and Motion focuses on refuting this misconception, arguing that Aristotle actually offered a systematic account of matter, motion, and the basic causal powers found in all physical objects. Author Christopher Byrne sheds lights on Aristotle's account of matter, revealing how Aristotle maintained that all perceptible objects are ultimately made from physical matter of one kind or another, accounting for their basic common features. For Aristotle, then, matter matters a great deal.
Clerk Maxwell's Matter And Motion. -- Though most of those who have devoted themselves to the subject will agree with the author that Physical Science has now arrived at a stage "in which the energy of a material system is conceived as determined by the configuration and motion of that system, and in which the ideas of configuration, motion, and force are generalized to the utmost extent warranted by their physical definitions," yet few of our writers on elementary physics seem to bear this as much in mind as they should do. So indifferent indeed are many of them to the claims of their readers to be instructed as regards the real state of our knowledge at the present time, that those points which should be considered as the very foundation stones on which the whole fabric is built are either almost entirely ignored or else set before the mind in such a form as to convey more or less erroneous impressions concerning them. Instead of giving the reader a clear conception of what force, motion, and energy really mean, and endeavouring to make him thoroughly comprehend that those phenomena of nature which we call heat, light, &c., are merely different forms of energy probably originated in the potential energy of gravitation, they teach him too often to regard them as having little connection with each other. We think that at any rate part of the blame of this may be laid at the door of our examinations, or rather perhaps of the examiners. Most writers of elementary text-books write principally for examinations, and many do not hesitate to say so; and so long as examiners set such questions aa many of them do, so long will such writers continue in the old groove, and real science-teaching be retarded. We are heartily glad, therefore, to see a man of weight, like Professor Clerk Maxwell, boldly stepping out in the right direction. His "statement of the fundamental doctrines of matter and motion" may not perhaps sell, because it is a book from which it is impossible to cram; but the 149 articles which it contains each constitutes in itself a valuable sermon, and we recommend the book even more to the teacher than to the pupil. Let the former consider every line in every article as carefully and with as much pains as Professor Clerk Maxwell has evidently written it, and he will be amply rewarded for his trouble by acquiring for himself and his pupils a more thorough and sound knowledge of the groundwork of Physical Science as we find it at the present time than he would obtain from the concentrated essence of nine-tenths of our more pretentious modern text-books. --The Contemporary Review, Volume 32
The nature of matter was as intriguing a question for ancient philosophers as it is for contemporary physicists, and Matter, Space, and Motion presents a fresh and illuminating account of the rich legacy of the physical theories of the Greeks from the fifth century B.C. to the late sixth century A.D.
Isaac Beeckman on Matter and Motion by Klaas van Berkel Pdf
"Historians of science and the philosophy of science find the substance and stance of Isaac Beeckman's thought highly interesting, for it represented an early attempt to develop a comprehensive picture of the world by means of mechanistic theory, that is, forces acting upon one another. Besides possibly influencing Descartes, this view broke away from medieval religious assumptions and belief in occult forces. Berkel teases out Beeckman's evolving approach to nature by means of his extensive journals, explaining the leading concept of "picturability." Beeckman supplied a stepping stone (one still not widely appreciated) on the path that led to the scientific revolution"--
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Hobbes and Galileo: Method, Matter and the Science of Motion by Gregorio Baldin Pdf
This book, translated from Italian, discusses the influence of Galileo on Hobbes’ natural philosophy. In his De motu, loco et tempore or Anti-White (~ 1643), Thomas Hobbes describes Galileo as “the greatest philosopher of all times”, and in De Corpore (1655), the Italian scientist is presented as the one who “opened the door of all physics, that is, the nature of motion.” The book gives a detailed analysis of Galileo’s legacy in Hobbes’s philosophy, exploring four main issues: a comparison between Hobbes’ and Mersenne’s natural philosophies, the Galilean Principles of Hobbes’ philosophical system, a comparison between Galileo’s momentum and Hobbes’s conatus , and Hobbes’ and Galileo’s theories of matter. The book also analyses the role played by Marin Mersenne, in spreading Galileo’s ideas in France, and as a discussant of Hobbes. It highlights the many aspects of Hobbes’ relationship with Galileo: the methodological and epistemological elements, but also the conceptual and the lexical analogies in the field of physics, to arrive, finally, at a close comparison on the subject of the matter. From this analysis emerges a shared mechanical conception of the universe open and infinite, that replaces the Aristotelian cosmos, and which is populated by two elements only: matter and motion.
Matter and Motion (Classic Reprint) by James Clerk Maxwell Pdf
Excerpt from Matter and Motion Physical science, which up to the end of the eighteenth century had been fully occupied in forming a conception Of natural phenomena as the result of forces acting between one body and another, has now fairly entered on the next stage of progress - that in which the energy Of a material system is conceived as determined by the configuration and motion of that system, and in which the ideas of configuration, motion, and force are generalised to the utmost extent warranted by their physical definitions. TO become acquainted with these fundamental ideas, to examine them under all their aspects, and habitually to guide the current of thought along the channels of strict dynamical reasoning, must be the foundation of the training Of the student of Physical Science. The following statement of the fundamental doctrines of Matter and Motion is therefore to be regarded as an introduction to the study of Physical Science in general. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Manuals of Elementary Science - Matter and Motion by James Clerk Maxwell Pdf
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