Tennis and the Scientific Revolution
A special issue of /Nuncius/ (vol. 28.1) has just been
published and is devoted to the Tennis and the Scientific Revolution:
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Tennis and the Scientific Revolution
Authors: Marco Beretta; Alessandro Tosi
pp. 1--4 (4)
Praecisio and Conjecture: Cusanus' Ball Game and the
'Learned Ignorance'
of the World
Author: Annarita Angelini
pp. 5--18 (14)
Training Tennis Players through Natural Philosophy: From
Scaino's Trattato to Garsault's Art du paumier
Author: Marco Beretta
pp. 19--42 (24)
Jeu de la paume: Health of the Body and the Mind in Early
Modern Medicine
Author: Concetta Pennuto
pp. 43--65 (23)
Galileo and Tennis: Reconciling the New Physics with
Commonsense
Author: Stefano Gattei
pp. 66--84 (19)
Tennis in Early Modern Visual Culture
Author: Alessandro Tosi
pp. 85--114 (30)
Jeu de Paume & Jeux de la Raison in
Seventeenth-Century Optics
Author: Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
pp. 115--141 (27)
Jacob Bernoulli and the Mathematics of Tennis
Author: Edith Dudley Sylla
pp. 142--163 (22)
/Documenta inedita/
Alchemy Revisited by the Mid-Eighteenth Century Chemists
in France: An Unpublished Manuscript by Pierre-Joseph Macquer
Author: Christine Lehman
pp. 165--216 (52)
/Obituary/
Gerard L'Estrange Turner 22 January 1926 - 19 July 2012
Author: Paolo Brenni
pp. 217--222 (6)
/Book Reviews/
pp. 223-243