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• catalog abstract ""This book is a historical-epistemological study of one of the most consequential ideas of early modern celestial mechanics: Robert Hooke's proposal to "compoun[d] the celestial motions of the planetts of a direct motion by the tangent & an attractive motion towards a central body", a proposal which Isaac Newton adopted and realized in his Principia." "Hooke's Programme was revolutionary both cosmologically and mathematically. It presented 'the celestial motions", the proverbial symbol of stability and immutability, as a process of continuous change and prescribed only parameters of rectilinear motions and rectilinear attractions for calculating their closed curved orbits. Yet the traces of Hooke's construction of his Programme for the heavens lead through his investigations in such earthly disciplines as microscopy, practical optics and horology, and the mathematical tools developed by Newton to accomplish it appear no less local and goal-oriented than Hooke's lenses and springs." "This transgression of the boundaries between the theoretical, experimental and technological realms is reminiscent of Hooke's own free excursions in and out of the circles occupied by gentlemen-philosophers, university mathematicians, instrument makers, technicians and servants. It presents an opportunity to examine the social and epistemological distinctions, relations and hierarchies between those realms and their inhabitants, and compels a critical assessment of the philosophical categories they embody."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12608039.
• catalog created "c2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "c2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
• catalog description ""This book is a historical-epistemological study of one of the most consequential ideas of early modern celestial mechanics: Robert Hooke's proposal to "compoun[d] the celestial motions of the planetts of a direct motion by the tangent & an attractive motion towards a central body", a proposal which Isaac Newton adopted and realized in his Principia." "Hooke's Programme was revolutionary both cosmologically and mathematically. It presented 'the celestial motions", the proverbial symbol of stability and immutability, as a process of continuous change and prescribed only parameters of rectilinear motions and rectilinear attractions for calculating their closed curved orbits. Yet the traces of Hooke's construction of his Programme for the heavens lead through his investigations in such earthly disciplines as microscopy, practical optics and horology, and the mathematical tools developed by Newton to accomplish it appear no less local and goal-oriented than Hooke's lenses and springs." "This transgression of the boundaries between the theoretical, experimental and technological realms is reminiscent of Hooke's own free excursions in and out of the circles occupied by gentlemen-philosophers, university mathematicians, instrument makers, technicians and servants. It presents an opportunity to examine the social and epistemological distinctions, relations and hierarchies between those realms and their inhabitants, and compels a critical assessment of the philosophical categories they embody."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index.".
• catalog description "The Historical Question -- Gallileo's Challenge -- The Correspondence -- Hooke's Programme -- The Historiographic Difficulty -- Hooke vs. Newton -- The Genius vs. The Mechanic -- Inflection -- Introduction: The Bad Ending -- The Novelty -- Hooke's Programme -- Setting the Question Right -- Employing Inflection -- Inflection -- Application as Manipulation -- Producing Inflection in the Workshop -- Construction -- Implementation -- Tentative Conclusion -- 1st Interlude: Practice -- Introduction--Methodological Lessons -- Hacking -- The Realism Snare -- Power -- De Potentia Restitutiva, or: Of Spring -- Horology -- The Spring Watch -- Springs and Forces -- The Origins of the Vibration Theory -- Of Spring again -- Springs as a Topos -- A Clockwork Theory of Matter and Power -- 2nd Interlude: Representation -- Rorty -- 'Knowledge Of' and 'Knowledge That' -- Hacking and Rorty -- Newton's Synthesis -- Newton Before and After -- Hooke's Programme Revisited -- Chapter 1: Inflection -- 1st Interlude: Practice -- Chapter 2: Clocks, Pendulums and Springs -- 2nd Interlude: Representation -- Chapter 3: Newton's Synthesis.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 239 p. :".
• catalog identifier "1402007329 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isPartOf "Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 229".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "c2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers,".
• catalog subject "521 21".
• catalog subject "Celestial mechanics.".
• catalog subject "Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703 Influence.".
• catalog subject "Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703.".
• catalog subject "Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.".
• catalog subject "Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.".
• catalog subject "QB351 .G35 2002".
• catalog tableOfContents "The Historical Question -- Gallileo's Challenge -- The Correspondence -- Hooke's Programme -- The Historiographic Difficulty -- Hooke vs. Newton -- The Genius vs. The Mechanic -- Inflection -- Introduction: The Bad Ending -- The Novelty -- Hooke's Programme -- Setting the Question Right -- Employing Inflection -- Inflection -- Application as Manipulation -- Producing Inflection in the Workshop -- Construction -- Implementation -- Tentative Conclusion -- 1st Interlude: Practice -- Introduction--Methodological Lessons -- Hacking -- The Realism Snare -- Power -- De Potentia Restitutiva, or: Of Spring -- Horology -- The Spring Watch -- Springs and Forces -- The Origins of the Vibration Theory -- Of Spring again -- Springs as a Topos -- A Clockwork Theory of Matter and Power -- 2nd Interlude: Representation -- Rorty -- 'Knowledge Of' and 'Knowledge That' -- Hacking and Rorty -- Newton's Synthesis -- Newton Before and After -- Hooke's Programme Revisited -- Chapter 1: Inflection -- 1st Interlude: Practice -- Chapter 2: Clocks, Pendulums and Springs -- 2nd Interlude: Representation -- Chapter 3: Newton's Synthesis.".
• catalog title "Meanest foundations and nobler superstructures : Hooke, Newton and the "compounding of the celestiall motions of the planets" / by Ofer Gal.".
• catalog type "text".