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  • Some Early Kinetic Theories of Gases: Herapath and his Predecessors

  • G. R. Talbot, A. J. Pacey
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 3 / Issue 2 / December 1966
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 133-149
    Print publication:
    December 1966

  • This paper summarizes ideas about the nature of gases proposed during the period following the discovery of Boyle's law. Particular stress is laid on the hypotheses of the Bernoullis, and later, on the equally speculative work of Herapath. Reasons for the success of Herapath's theory, and the neglect of Daniel Bernoulli's are discussed, but it has not been thought necessary to take the story beyond the initial acceptance of Herapath's theory by J. P. Joule, because the paper is concerned only with the antecedents of the modern kinetic theory.

  • Swineshead on Falling Bodies: An Example of Fourteenth-Century Physics

  • M. A. Hoskin, A. G. Molland
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 3 / Issue 2 / December 1966
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 150-182
    Print publication:
    December 1966

  • The “Scientific Revolution” of the seventeenth century cannot adequately be assessed without an appreciation of the achievements and limitations of those, whether giants or dwarfs, on whose shoulders Galileo and his contemporaries stood. And since for many historians Galileo's main contribution lies in the mathematization of the natural world and especially of time and motion, particular interest attaches to medieval treatises dealing with these questions, above all to those which were in widespread demand early in the sixteenth century.

  • Science and Civilization in China: Volume 4, Part 2: Mechanical Engineering

  • D. S. L. Cardwell
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 3 / Issue 2 / December 1966
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 183-184
    Print publication:
    December 1966
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