Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton
by
Alan F. Chalmers
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
This monograph investigates the development of hydrostatics as a science. In the process, it sheds new light on the nature of science and its origins in the Scientific Revolution. Readers will come to see that the history of hydrostatics reveals subtle ways in which the science of the seventeenth...