Tartaglia's science of weights and m...
Capecchi, Danilo.

 

  • Tartaglia's science of weights and mechanics in the sixteenth century[electronic resource] :selections from Quesiti et inventioni diverse: books VII-VIII /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 530.81
    書名/作者: Tartaglia's science of weights and mechanics in the sixteenth century : selections from Quesiti et inventioni diverse: books VII-VIII // by Raffaele Pisano, Danilo Capecchi.
    作者: Pisano, Raffaele.
    其他作者: Capecchi, Danilo.
    出版者: Dordrecht : : Springer Netherlands :, 2016.
    面頁冊數: xviii, 504 p. : : ill., digital ;; 24 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    標題: Weights and measures - History.
    標題: Mechanics - History.
    標題: Physics.
    標題: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.
    標題: History of Mathematical Sciences.
    標題: Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
    ISBN: 9789401797108
    ISBN: 9789401797092
    摘要、提要註: 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 Niccolo 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.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9710-8
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