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Tartaglia's Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century - Selections from Quesiti et inventioni diverse: Books VII-VIII (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
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Tartaglia's Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century - Selections from Quesiti et inventioni diverse: Books VII-VIII (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 28
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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.
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