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Tartaglia’s Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth CenturyThe Analysis of Books VII and VIII of Quesiti et inventioni diverse

Tartaglia’s Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century: The Analysis of Books VII... [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 mechanica on the accuracy and stability of a balance – with large or small arms, and fulcrum below or above – (Book VII) and concerning the principles of the science of weights (Book VIII). The latter arguments are discussed, taking into account de Nemore’s corpus on the science of weights for exploration of the structure of the shared knowledge of early modern statics, aiming to discuss alternative frameworks, and so distinguishing between individual and shared structures in the literature belonging to early modern mechanics. In this sense, this chapter is devoted to historical epistemology of science, presenting an integrated history and epistemology of scientific methods, which combine epistemological and historical approaches to identify significant historical hypotheses within the relationship between physics and mathematics (physical observations and theoretical mechanical modeling).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Tartaglia’s Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth CenturyThe Analysis of Books VII and VIII of Quesiti et inventioni diverse

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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
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978-94-017-9709-2
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191 –257
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10.1007/978-94-017-9710-8_3
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[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 mechanica on the accuracy and stability of a balance – with large or small arms, and fulcrum below or above – (Book VII) and concerning the principles of the science of weights (Book VIII). The latter arguments are discussed, taking into account de Nemore’s corpus on the science of weights for exploration of the structure of the shared knowledge of early modern statics, aiming to discuss alternative frameworks, and so distinguishing between individual and shared structures in the literature belonging to early modern mechanics. In this sense, this chapter is devoted to historical epistemology of science, presenting an integrated history and epistemology of scientific methods, which combine epistemological and historical approaches to identify significant historical hypotheses within the relationship between physics and mathematics (physical observations and theoretical mechanical modeling).]

Published: Jan 12, 2015

Keywords: Horizontal Position; Incline Plane; Small Balance; Physical Argument; Large Balance

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