Beyond Stevin and Galileo: seventeenth century hydrostatics in the Jesuit Class of the Sphere
In the first half of the seventeenth-century, philosophers and mathematicians were still trying to solve important questions on hydrostatics, like the existence of vacuum, the cohesion of matter, and pressure. Mathematicians like Simon Stevin and Galileo Galilei made contributions to these problems...
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Birkhauser
2020
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