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Distinguished Figures in Descriptive Geometry and Its Applications for Mechanism Science

Part of the History of Mechanism and Machine Science Book Series (volume 30)

Editors: Cigola, Michela

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20197-9

ISBN: 978-3-319-20196-2

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jul 28, 2015

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Chapter 1Descriptive Geometry and Mechanism Science from Antiquity to the 17th Century: An Introduction

Cigola, Michela

Pages: 1 –32

[The focus of this brief introduction is the common birth and parallel destiny of Descriptive Geometry and Mechanism Science. This argument will compare some scientists from the chosen period who can be considered of common interest between the two disciplines, devoting a chapter to each of them....
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Chapter 2Gerbert of Aurillac (c. 940–1003)

Bianchini, Carlo; Senatore, Luca J.

Pages: 33 –51

[Gerbert of Aurillac represents one of the most relevant personalities of the European medieval culture, being a prolific scholar as well as an acknowledged teacher especially as tutor of Emperors Otto II and Otto III. A disciple himself of Atto, during his long and successful career, first as a...
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Chapter 3Francesco Feliciano De Scolari (1470–1542)

Gallozzi, Arturo

Pages: 53 –75

[Francesco Feliciano De Scolari, also known as “Francesco Lazesio” or simply Lazisio (or Lasezio) in his native Lazise, a master of mathematics and expert surveyor who worked in Verona and other parts of the Italian peninsula in the late fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century, owes...
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Chapter 4Niccolò Tartaglia (1500c.–1557)

Ippolito, Alfonso; Bartolomei, Cristiana

Pages: 77 –98

[The article presents Niccolò Tartaglia as a mathematician active in various fields of science such as mathematics, arithmetic, mechanics, geometry as well as ballistics and military architecture. Although he won general recognition for the Tartaglia’s Triangle and his solution to cubic...
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Chapter 5Federico Commandino (1509–1575)

Zerlenga, Ornella

Pages: 99 –128

[During the sixteenth century, Federico Commandino was drawn to the attention of the scientific and cultural community for his role as an erudite scholar, as well as his contributions to the disciplines of Mechanics and Descriptive Geometry. To Commandino can be attributed important Latin...
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Chapter 6Egnazio Danti (1536–1586)

Centofanti, Mario

Pages: 129 –152

[Egnazio Danti, mathematician and cosmographer, is deep down a Renaissance man. A complex personality, characterized by great cultural and multiple interests in the relationship between Art, Science and Technology. Professor of mathematics in Florence and then at the University of Bologna,...
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Chapter 7Guidobaldo Del Monte (1545–1607)

Aterini, Barbara

Pages: 153 –180

[Guidobaldo, Marquis del Monte (1545–1607) developed mechanics theories by concentrating on the importance of Archimedes’ teachings and by focusing on a rigorously geometrical approach to issues, never forgetting a consistent observation of experience. He investigated perspective thoroughly and...
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Chapter 8Giovan Battista Aleotti (1546–1636)

Apollonio, Fabrizio I.

Pages: 181 –200

[Giovan Battista Aleotti was a polyhedral man of science of the XVI century, who worked in the field of architecture, engineering, scenography, but also a scientist who studied hydraulics and mechanics. He contributed to dissemination of the ‘Pneumatica’ of Heron of Alexandria, translating it...
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Chapter 9Giovanni Pomodoro (XVI Century)

Brusaporci, Stefano

Pages: 201 –222

[Giovanni Pomodoro was a mathematician, astronomer and land-surveyor, and an experienced instruments builder, who lived in the XVI century. His figure and his name cannot be split off from his only known work: the treatise “Geometria Prattica” [Practical Geometry], published posthumously in 1599....
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Chapter 10Jacques Ozanam (1640–1718)

Càndito, Cristina

Pages: 223 –248

[The life of Jacques Ozanam has been conditioned by the fact that he was the second-born in a well-off land-owning family, under a regime where only the first-born could inherit the family wealth. His father for this reason pushed him into clerical studies, thereby prohibiting him from carrying...

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