Giovanni Alfonso Borelli: 2 books

Book cover of Borelli's On the Movement of Animals - On the Force of Percussion
by Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014

This volume provides an introduction to Borelli’s theory on the movement of animals and demonstrates the nature of the energy of percussion, its causes, properties and effects. Building on and moving away from the theory of mechanics as formulated by Aristotle and Galileo and countering objections...
Book cover of Borelli's On the Movement of Animals - On the Natural Motions Resulting from Gravity
by Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014

This volume provides an introduction to Borelli’s theory on the movement of animals and describes his theory and scientific experiments relating to the natural movements of bodies in a fluid environment. It describes in great detail why and how bodies which present with different magnitudes, weights...
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