TY  - BOOK
AU  - 
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - HonorȨ Fabri and the Concept of Impetus: A Bridge between Paradigms
T2  - Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science,
SN  - 9789400716056
AV  - B108-5802 
U1  - 180-190 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Philosophy (General)
KW  - Science
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History of Philosophy
KW  - History of Science
N2  - This book discusses the impetus-based physics of the Jesuit natural philosopher and mathematician HonorȨ Fabri (1608-1688), a senior representative of Jesuit scientists during the period between Galileo's death (1642) and Newton's Principia (1687). It shows how Fabri, while remaining loyal to a general Aristotelian outlook, managed to reinterpret the old concept of ǣimpetusǥ in such a way as to assimilate into his physics building blocks of modern science, like Galileos law of fall and Descartes principle of inertia. This account of Fabris theory is a novel one, since his physics is commonly considered as a dogmatic rejection of the New Science, not essentially different from the medieval impetus theory. This book shows how New Science principles were taught in Jesuit Colleges in the 1640s, thus depicting the sophisticated manner in which new ideas were settling within the lions den of Catholic education
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1605-6
ER  -