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Tartaglia's Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century: Selections from Quesiti Et Inventioni Diverse: Books VII-VIII

Tartaglia's Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century: Selections from Quesiti Et Inventioni Diverse: Books VII-VIII

Capecchi, Danilo
Pisano, Raffaele

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Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science, Book 28

Technology & EngineeringGeneral MathematicsPhysics

ISBN10: 9401778310
ISBN13: 9789401778312
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 23 2016
Pages: 504
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.05 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 Niccolò Fontana, better known as Tartaglia (1500?-1557), wrote the treatise Quesiti et inventioni diverse (1546).

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