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Tartaglia’s Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century

Part of the History of Mechanism and Machine Science Book Series (volume 28)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9710-8

ISBN: 978-94-017-9709-2

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jan 12, 2015

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Niccolò Tartaglia and the Renaissance Society Between Science and Technique

Pisano, Raffaele; Capecchi, Danilo

Pages: 3 –111

[In this section, biographical sketches and philological-historical-epistemological reflections are reported. In particular, we present Tartaglia’s study of mathematics, geometry, arithmetic, ballistics and fortifications.]
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Ancient and Modern Statics in the Renaissance

Pisano, Raffaele; Capecchi, Danilo

Pages: 113 –188

[Statics is the science of equilibrium. The term appears in the Latin version (translated by Snel) of Simon Stevin (1548–1620) most famous textbook, Tomus quartus mathematicorum hypomnematum de statica (Stevin 1605, p 5) This work can be considered the hinge between ancient and modern statics....
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The Analysis of Books VII and VIII of Quesiti et inventioni diverse

Pisano, Raffaele; Capecchi, Danilo

Pages: 191 –257

[We analyse Niccolò Tartaglia’s Books VII and VIII of the Quesiti et inventioni diverse. The discussion is organized both from historical and epistemological points of view. Particularly, we will focus on the reasoning proposed by Tartaglia against the arguments of the Aristotelian Problemata...
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Translation and Transcription

Pisano, Raffaele; Capecchi, Danilo

Pages: 261 –453

[In this first section we provide some information and background on a selection of writings by and about Niccolò Tartaglio. We have focused on translations into English and Italian, as well as Latin transcriptions of Books VII and VIII of the Quesiti, and Iordani opusolum by de Nemore. Further...
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Foreign Editions of Quesiti et inventioni diverse

Pisano, Raffaele; Capecchi, Danilo

Pages: 457 –463

[In this section, we present the results of an historical archive research. It has been finalized to list, as far as possible, the main Quesiti’s foreign editions published in the history of science. We also list some uncertain dates and alleged editions cited in the history of science archives....
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Conclusion

Pisano, Raffaele; Capecchi, Danilo

Pages: 465 –466

[Questa è stata una bella speculazione, & me è piaciesta assai. Et perche vedo essere hora tarda, non voglio, che procedati in altro per hoggi.]
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Chapter 7Erratum to: Chapter 4 Translation and Transcription

Pisano, Raffaele; Capecchi, Danilo

Pages: E1 –E1

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