Roy Laird and Sophie Roux Introduction
1. Ancient and Medieval Mechanics
Mark J. Schiefsky Theory and Practice in Heron's Mechanics
Jean Celeyrette Bradwardine's Rule: A Mathematical Law?
Edith Dudley Sylla The Origin and Fate of Thomas Bradwardine's De proportionibus velocitatum in motibus in Relation to the History of Mathematics
Jürgen Sarnowsky Concepts of Impetus and the History of Mechanics
2. The Reappropriation and Transformation of Ancient Mechanics
Christiane Vilain Circular and Rectilinear Motion in the Mechanica and in the Sixteenth Century
Walter Roy Laird Nature, Mechanics, and Voluntary Movement in Giuseppe Moletti's Lectures on the Pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanica
Mario Otto Helbing Mechanics and Natural Philosophy in Sixteenth Century Pisa: Cesalpino and Buonamici, Humanist Masters in the Faculty of Arts
Egidio Festa and Sophie Roux The Enigma of the Inclined Plane from Heron to Galileo
3. Mechanics in New Contexts
Jochen Büttner The Pendulum as a Challenging Object in Early-Modern Period
Victor Navarro-Brontons Mechanics in Spain at the end of the Sixteenth Century and the Madrid Academy of Mathematics
Gert Vanpaemel Mechanics and Mechanical Philosophy in some Jesuit Mathematical Textbooks of the Early Seventeenth Century

This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, between different traditions, or between textual traditions and the wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how the accommodations sometimes made in the course of these conflicts ultimately contributed to the emergence of modern mechanics.