Tartaglia's science of weights and mechanics in the sixteenth century [electronic resource] : selections from Quesiti et inventioni diverse: books VII-VIII / Rafaele Pisano, Danilo Capecchi.
Pisano, Raffaele, 1970- author.; Capecchi, Danilo, author.
2016
QC86 .P57 2016eb
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Title Tartaglia's science of weights and mechanics in the sixteenth century [electronic resource] : selections from Quesiti et inventioni diverse: books VII-VIII / Rafaele Pisano, Danilo Capecchi.
Author Pisano, Raffaele, 1970- author.
ISBN 9789401797108 (electronic book)
9401797102 (electronic book)
9401797099
9789401797092
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9710-8
Published Dordrecht : Springer, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (516 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-94-017-9710-8 doi
Call Number QC86 .P57 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 530.8/1
Summary This book presents a historical and scientific analysis as historical epistemology of the science of weights and mechanics in the sixteenth century, particularly as developed by Tartaglia in his Quesiti et inventioni diverse, Book VII and Book VIII (1546; 1554). In the early 16th century mechanics was concerned mainly with what is now called statics and was referred to as the Scientia de ponderibus, generally pursued by two very different approaches. The first was usually referred to as Aristotelian, where the equilibrium of bodies was set as a balance of opposite tendencies to motion. The second, usually referred to as Archimedean, identified statics with centrobarica, the theory of centres of gravity based on symmetry considerations. In between the two traditions the Italian scholar Niccolò Fontana, better known as Tartaglia (1500??1557), wrote the treatise Quesiti et inventioni diverse (1546). This volume consists of three main parts. In the first, a historical excursus regarding Tartaglia?s lifetime, his scientific production and the Scientia de ponderibus in the Arabic-Islamic culture, and from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, is presented. Secondly, all the propositions of Books VII and VIII, by relating them with the Problemata mechanica by the Aristotelian school and Iordani opvsculvm de ponderositate by Jordanus de Nemore are examined within the history and historical epistemology of science. The last part is relative to the original texts and critical transcriptions into Italian and Latin and an English translation. This work gathers and re-evaluates the current thinking on this subject. It brings together contributions from two distinguished experts in the history and historical epistemology of science, within the fields of physics, mathematics and engineering. It also gives much-needed insight into the subject from historical and scientific points of view. The volume composition makes for absorbing reading for historians, epistemologists, philosophers and scientists.
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Added Author Capecchi, Danilo, author.
Series History of mechanism and machine science ; v. 28.
Available in Other Form Tartaglia's Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century
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Preface by Patricia Radelet-de Grave
Acknowledgments
Remarks for the Reader
Introduction
PART I ? Biographical Sketches & Science in Context
1 Niccolò Tartaglia and the Renaissance Society between Science and Technique. Niccolò Fontana called Tartaglia
1.1. Biographical and Scientific Sketches
1.2.Tartaglia?s Conceptual Stream in the Renaissance
1.3. Physics and Architecture: On Ballistics & Fortifications
1.4. On the Opera Archimedis and Archimedis de insidentibus aquae
1.5. Contents, Former Pupils and Philological Notes
2. Ancient and Modern Statics in the Renaissance. The Background
2.1.The scientia de ponderibus in the Middle Ages
2.2. Revival during the Age of Humanism
2.3. Tartaglia?s Legacy. A Transition between Science of Weights and Modern Statics
PART II ? History & Historical Epistemology Analyses
3The Analysis of Books VII and VIII of Quesiti et inventioni diverse
A Historical Epistemology Outline on Early Statics in the Books VII and VIII
3.1. The Analysis of Book VII (1554)
3.2.The Analysis of Book VIII (1554)
PART III ? Translations & Transcriptions 4. General Considerations
4.1. The Quesiti et inventioni diverse (1554)
4.2. Philological Notes on Iordani opusculum de ponderositate (1565)
4.3. Book VII of Quesiti et inventioni diverse (1554)
4.4. Book VIII of Quesiti et inventioni diverse (1554)
4.5. The Italian Critical Transcriptions
4.6. The Iordani opusculum de ponderositate (1565)
PART IV ? Circulation of Knowledge & Conclusion
5 Foreign Editions of Quesiti et invention diverse. General Considerations
5.1. Quesiti Foreign Editions
5.2. Bibliographical Notes
Conclusion
6 Conclusion
Concluding Remarks
References
Microfilm Tartalea
Main Quesiti Accounts
Index.

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