One Hundred Years of Pressure: Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton

by Alan F. Chalmers

Book Overview

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 century differed from previous periods.

The key, the author argues, is the new insights into the concept of pressure that emerged during the Scientific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319859382
• ISBN13: 9783319859385
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"