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In the late 1660s the Royal SocietyRoyal Society of LondonLondon investigated the lawsLaw of collisionCollision, rules or laws of. The contributions by Wren, Wallis and Huygens have long been studied by internalist historians of physicsPhysics as a telling moment in the gestation of classical physics, between the earlier work of Galileo and Descartes and the later synthesisSynthesis of NewtonNewton. This study examines the institutional and cognitive dynamics of this episode at the intersection of two novel historiographical dimensions: (1) The rules of collision project is analysed by applying techniques and insights first developed by Alan H. B. Taylor[aut]Taylor, Alan and then by Taylor and Schuster for understanding the Royal Society’sRoyal Society organizational patterns of management of investigations. (2) Classical mechanicsClassical mechanics is viewed as a domain that in this period was in the processProcess of diverging from the larger field of natural philosophising and crystallizing as the hegemonic discipline in the emerging ecology of new scientific fields. The rules of collisionCollision, rules or laws of project displays the processesProcess and tensions involved in this larger trajectory. It will be shown that (1) and (2) are closely related and jointly frame an historiographically innovative account of the rules of collision project.

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The Laws of Collision at the Royal Society, 1668–9: A Case Study in the Organization of Inquiry in Early Classical Physics

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    2025年

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  • John A. Schuster

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In the late 1660s the Royal SocietyRoyal Society of LondonLondon investigated the lawsLaw of collisionCollision, rules or laws of. The contributions by Wren, Wallis and Huygens have long been studied by internalist historians of physicsPhysics as a telling moment in the gestation of classical physics, between the earlier work of Galileo and Descartes and the later synthesisSynthesis of NewtonNewton. This study examines the institutional and cognitive dynamics of this episode at the intersection of two novel historiographical dimensions: (1) The rules of collision project is analysed by applying techniques and insights first developed by Alan H. B. Taylor[aut]Taylor, Alan and then by Taylor and Schuster for understanding the Royal Society’sRoyal Society organizational patterns of management of investigations. (2) Classical mechanicsClassical mechanics is viewed as a domain that in this period was in the processProcess of diverging from the larger field of natural philosophising and crystallizing as the hegemonic discipline in the emerging ecology of new scientific fields. The rules of collisionCollision, rules or laws of project displays the processesProcess and tensions involved in this larger trajectory. It will be shown that (1) and (2) are closely related and jointly frame an historiographically innovative account of the rules of collision project.