Which is another way of stating that if you throw a knuckle ball just so,
the spin of the ball will cause a curve in the trajectory so as to cause the
batter to miss. What ole DesCartes could never explain was what happens when
you chunk a concave seashell with an induced spin in a trajectory that
allows the shell to impact the surface of the water in just the right angle
to cause a "skip". With practice, the shell can be made to accelerate(
similar to a hummingbird's ability to locate invisible wind vortex).
Considering the cartesiens mixing with the courtesians in the court, it's no
wonder science sorta lack co-ordination at the time.. ole Galileo must have
had a puzzled look on his face at the people calling for his head. Just
shows what science can do given the right amount of money.
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Veeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:48 PM
Subject: [Vo]:William Gilbert's alternate science of motion.
William Gilbert's (1544-1603) natural philosophy was an early
conceptual framework for an alternate science of motion.Gilbert was
able to make sense of "action-at-a-distance" because he was willing to
explore and use concepts which did not fit within the science of
motion known as mechanics.
However, the early proponents of the mechanical philosophy (e.g.
Descartes, Huygens and others) did not like it and their opinions were
highly influential.
Harry
http://www.new-science-theory.com/william-gilbert.html
quote:
"When science proper was first developing in Europe, the prevailing
scholarly philosophy of nature was that of Aristotle backed by
governments and religion. In Aristotle's divine universe every thing
was to some extent self-acting (or 'animate') and thinking with
divinely set motivations and knowledge - so that objects fell to the
ground because they sought to move themselves 'to their natural
place'. Gilbert saw this as involving too much irrational supposition
and unable to describe the complex realities of actual natural
phenomena shown in experiments to accord with invariant laws of
behaviour. Gilberts theory did retain Aristotle's self-action for
bodies, but only as automatic invariant law responses to emitted
signals - so stones fell to the ground only with a specific
acceleration in response to a specific strength and direction of
gravity signals from the Earth. Gilbert postulated a robot signal-
response universe basically, and saw that as very different to the
Aris totle divine universe though it did retain one element of it."
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