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Archimedean science and the scientific revolution

History of Mechanism and Machine Science (2010) 11 377-386
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9091-1_28
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Abstract

According to Richard Westfall (Westfall, 1977) the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century was dominated by two themes: the Platonic-pythagorean tradition “which looked on nature in geometric terms” and mechanical philosophy “which conceived of nature as a huge machine”. This paper is an attempt to study the appropriation of Archimedean science in the Scientific Revolution in Western Europe.

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Oliveira, A. R. E. (2010). Archimedean science and the scientific revolution. In History of Mechanism and Machine Science (Vol. 11, pp. 377–386). Springer Netherland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9091-1_28

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