Michael S. Mahoney
Articles on 17th-Century Science

"The Beginnings of Algebraic Thought in the Seventeenth Century", in S. Gaukroger (ed.), Descartes: Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics (Sussex: The Harvester Press/Totowa, NJ: Barnes andNoble Books, 1980), Chap.5
"Christiaan Huygens: The Measurement of Time and of Longitude at Sea", in H.J.M. Bos et al. (eds.), Studies on Christiaan Huygens (Lisse: Swets, 1980), 234-270
"Diagrams and Dynamics: Mathematical Reflections on Edgerton's Thesis", in J. Shirley and F.D. Hoeniger (eds.), Science and the Arts in the Renaissance (Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1985), Chap. 10
"Barrow's Mathematics: Between Ancients and Moderns", in M. Feingold (ed.), Before Newton: The Life and Times of Isaac Barrow (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), Chap. 3
"Infinitesimals and Transcendent Relations: The Mathematics of Motion in the Late Seventeenth Century", in D.C. Lindberg and R.S. Westman (eds.), Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), Chap. 12
"Algebraic vs. Geometric Techniques in Newton's Determination of Planetary Orbits", in Paul Theerman and Adele F. Seeff (eds.), Action and Reaction: Proceedings of a Symposium to Commemorate the Tercentenary of Newton's Principia (Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1993), 183-205
"Longitude in the Context of the History of Science," in The Quest for Longitude (Cambridge, MA: [Harvard University]Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 1996)
"The Mathematical Realm of Nature", in D.E. Garber et al.(eds.), Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), Vol. I, pp. 702-55
"Huygens and the Pendulum: From Device to Mathematical Relation", in E. Grosholz and H. Breger (eds.), The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000), pp. 17-39
"Charting the Globe and Tracking the Heavens: Navigation and the Sciences in the Early Modern Era", in Brett Steele and Tamera Dorland (eds.), The Heirs of Archimedes: Technology, Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005), 221-230
"Sketching Science in the Seventeenth Century", paper for Symposium on Creativity: The Sketch in the Arts and Sciences , Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 25 May 2001, to appear in published proceedings
"Calculation - Thinking - Computational Thinking: Seventeenth-Century Perspectives on Computational Science", in Rudolf Seising, Menso Folkerts, and Ulf Hashagen (eds), Form, Zahl, Ordnung. Studien zur Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte. Festschrift für Ivo Schneider zum 65. Geburtstag (Boethius: Texte und Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004.
"Drawing Mechanics", in Picturing Machines, 1400-1700, ed. Wolfgang Lefebvre (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004).

Michael S. Mahoney Articles on 17th-Century Science

Michael S. Mahoney
Articles on 17th-Century Science