Tartaglia??Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century ― Selections from Quesiti Et Inventioni Diverse
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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 hisQuesiti 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 theScientia 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 treatiseQuesiti 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 theScientia de ponderibus in the Arabic-Islamic culture, and from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, is presented. Secondly, all the propositions ofBooks VII and VIII, by relating them with the Problemata mechanica by the Aristotelian school andIordani 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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