Tartaglia’s Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century Selections from Quesiti et inventioni diverse: Books VII–VIII
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 w...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2016, 2016
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016 |
| Series: | History of Mechanism and Machine Science
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Table of Contents:
- 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