One Hundred Years of Pressure

Chapter 1. The theoretical challenge posed for seventeenth century mechanics by fluids.- Chapter 2. The background to Simon Stevin's hydrostatics.- Chapter 3. Moving beyond Archimedes: The hydrostatics of Simon Stevin.- Chapter 4. Galileo, floating bodies and the balance.- Chapter 5. Descartes' engagement with hydrostatics.- Chapter 6. Pascal on the equilibrium of liquids.- Chapter 7. Experimenting with, and theorizing about, air.- Chapter 8. Boyle and the concept of pressure.- Chapter 9. Newton's hydrostatics: Pressure in a continuum, following Boyle, rather than corpuscle pressing on corpuscle, following Descartes.- Chapter 10. Reflections on the role of theory and experiment in the emergence of hydrostatics.- Chapter 11. Reflections on the significance of the history of hydrostatics: What was revolutionary about the scientific revolution?

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History of hydrostatics;Emergence of the concept of pressure;Conceptual change in science;Mechanism in the seventeenth century;Experimental philosophy;The mathematization of science;equilibrium of liquids;Scientific Revolution;emergence of hydrostatics;science of the seventeenth century