{"product_id":"the-unfinished-mechanics-of-giuseppe-moletti-9781442657748","title":"The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMechanics has long been recognized as the pivotal science in the decline of Aristotelian natural philosophy and the rise of the new, mathematical physics of the Scientific Revolution. Less well known, however, is the earlier transformation of mechanics from a practical art into a theoretical and mathematical science. This transformation was occasioned by the recovery of the pseudo-Aristotelian \u003cem\u003eMechanical Problems\u003c\/em\u003e and its assimilation in the course of the sixteenth century to the Aristotelian model of the subalternate or middle sciences, which deal with natural subject matter but draw their principles from geometry or arithmetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his \u003cem\u003eDialogue on Mechanics\u003c\/em\u003e, Giuseppe Moletti made the most explicit and thoroughgoing attempt to determine the geometrical principles of Aristotelian mechanics, to establish its Euclidean foundations, and so to realize in fact the subalternation of mechanics to geometry. Having done this in the First Day, he then set out in the Seco\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408375652695,"sku":"9781442657748","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442657748.jpg?v=1730502681","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-unfinished-mechanics-of-giuseppe-moletti-9781442657748","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}