Università Roma Tre

MECHANICS AND THE MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY IN EARLY MODERN SCIENCE. THE ROLE OF MACHINES IN EUROPEAN SOCIETIES.
PRACTICAL MECHANICS AND THE NEW SCIENCE OF MOTION FROM GALILEI TO NEWTON. MATTER, MOTION AND FORCE IN MODERN PHYSICS (1600-1800).

REQUIRED TEXTS.

SELECTIONS FROM:
G. GALILEI, DIALOGO SOPRA I DUE MASSIMI SISTEMI DEL MONDO;
G. GALILEI, DISCORSI E DIMOSTRAZIONI MATEMATICHE;
R. DESCARTES, PRINCIPIA PHILOSOPHIAE;
I. NEWTON, PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA PHILOSOPHIAE NATURALIS;
I. NEWTON, OPTICKS.

ONE TEXT FROM THIS LIST:

P. PECERE (ed.), Il libro della natura, CAROCCI, Roma, 2015;

A. THACKRAY, Atoms and Powers, Harvard U.P., Cambridge Mass.,1970;

M. Valleriani, Galileo engineer, Springer, Dordrecht, 2010;

R. WESTFALL, Force in Newton's physics, Neale Watson Ac. Publ., New York, 1971;