TREATISE ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
Introduction 1 1 ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL MECHANICS Theory and Practice in Heron’s Mechanics 15 Bradwardine’s Rule: A Mathematical Law? 51 The Origin and Fate of Thomas Bradwardine’s De proportionibus velocitatum in motibus in Relation to the History of Mathematics 67 Concepts of Impetus and the History of Mechanics 121 2 THE REAPPROPRIATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF ANCIENT MECHANICS Circular and Rectilinear Motion in the Mechanica and in the 16th Century 149 Nature, Mechanics, and Voluntary Movement in Giuseppe Moletti’s Lectures on the Pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanica 173 Mechanics and Natural Philosophy in Late 16th-Century Pisa: Cesalpino and Buonamici, Humanist Masters of the Faculty of Arts 185 The Enigma of the Inclined Plane from Heron to Galileo 195 3 MECHANICS IN NEW CONTEXTS The Pendulum as a Challenging Object in Early-Modern Mechanics 223 Mechanics in Spain at the End of the 16th Century and the Madrid Academy of Mathematics 239 Mechanics and Mechanical Philosophy in some Jesuit Mathematical Textbooks of the Early 17th Century 259