Code
3G007511
Duration
01 January 2011 → 31 December 2016
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Theory and methodology of philosophy
- Philosophy
- Ethics
- Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
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Natural sciences
- History and foundations
Keywords
collission laws
scientific revolution
Huygens
Project description
This project proposes the first systematic study of the conceptual and experimental foundations of a key episode in the history of science: the establishment of a European consensus on the proper rules of collision by Huygens, Wallis, and Wren promoted by the Royal Society of London in 1668-1669. By mixing Galilean and Cartesian principles with older elements they created a field of inquiry that became a crucial stepping stone to even more ambitious projects of the later Huygens and Newton.