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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aQA3 _b.Y63 1988
082	0	0	_a510/.92/4 _219
100	1		_aYoder, Joella Gerstmeyer, _d1944- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aUnrolling time : _bChristiaan Huygens and the mathematization of nature / _cJoella G. Yoder.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c1988.
300			_a1 online resource (xi, 238 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520			_aThis case study examines the interrelationship between mathematics and physics in the work of one of the major figures of the Scientific Revolution: the Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, Christian Huygens (1629-1695). Joella Yoder details the creative interaction that led Huygens to invent a pendulum clock that theoretically beat absolutely uniform time, to measure the constant of gravitational acceleration, to analyze centrifugal force, and to create the mathematical theory of evolutes. In the second half of the book, Dr Yoder places Huygens's work in the context of his time by examining his relationship with other scientists and the priority disputes that sometimes motivated his research. The role of evolutes in the history of mathematics is analyzed; the reception of Huygens's masterpiece, the Horologium Oscillatorium of 1673, is described; and finally, the part that Christian Huygens played in the rise of applied mathematics is addressed.
650		0	_aMathematics _vEarly works to 1800.
650		0	_aScience _xMathematics _vEarly works to 1800.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521341400
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511622441
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