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_q(hardcover)
035 _a(OCoLC)369165137
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100 1 _aYoder, Joella Gerstmeyer,
_d1944-
_eauthor.
_0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85252485
_95924
245 1 0 _aUnrolling time :
_bChristian Huygens and the mathematization of nature /
_cJoella G. Yoder.
250 _a1st paperback edition.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c[2004]
264 4 _c©1988
300 _a238 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
336 _astill image
_bsti
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337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aOriginally published: 1988.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"This 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."--Back cover
562 _331560000054813
_b3559
590 _aScholarly, theoretical work on Christiaan Huygens role in bringing mathematics into physical science
600 1 0 _aHuygens, Christiaan,
_d1629-1695.
_0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79134100
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650 0 _aMathematics
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650 0 _aScience
_xMathematics
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650 7 _aMathematics.
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650 7 _aScience
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653 5 _aNetherlands
653 3 _aNetherlands Huyges
653 0 _aTimekeeper (general)
655 7 _aEarly works.
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