
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2017
Pages: 21-37
Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9783319527666
Full citation:
, "Motion and proportion in simon stevin's mechanics", in: Eppur si muove, Berlin, Springer, 2017


Motion and proportion in simon stevin's mechanics
pp. 21-37
in: Marcus P. Adams, Zvi Biener, Uljana Feest, Jacqueline A. Sullivan (eds), Eppur si muove, Berlin, Springer, 2017Abstract
This paper offers a reassesment of Simon Stevin's mechanics, by focusing on how Stevin tries to anchor his mathematical demonstrations in the behavior of material instruments. It is shown how his views on the relation between spiegheling (speculation) and daet (practice) are crucial to correctly understand his famous proof of the law of the inclined plane and his experimental test of the Aristotelian law of free fall. The distance separating spiegheling and daet is reproduced in that between instruments at rest and instruments in motion, because of Stevin's claim that impediments to motion are "inseperable accidents' of all moving objects.
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Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2017
Pages: 21-37
Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9783319527666
Full citation:
, "Motion and proportion in simon stevin's mechanics", in: Eppur si muove, Berlin, Springer, 2017