Unrolling Time: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematization of Nature 豆 0.0分

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作者：Joella G. Yoder

出版社：Cambridge University Press

出版日期：2004-01

ISBN：9780521524810

文件格式： pdf

标签： 科学史 物理 数学 思想史 STS Enlightenment EarlyModernEurope

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This case study examines the interrelationship between mathematics and physics in the work of one of the major figures of the Scientific Revolution: the Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, Christian Huygens (1629-1695). Joella Yoder details the creative interaction that led Huygens to invent a pendulum clock that theoretically beat absolutely uniform time, to measur...