Metallurgy, Ballistics and Epistemic Instruments
The Nova scientia of Nicolò Tartaglia. A New Edition
Matteo Valleriani(Author)
epubli (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 18. April 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-3-8442-5258-3 (ISBN)
Description
In 1537, Nicolò Tartaglia (1500-1557), a mathematician from Brescia, published "Nova scientia." It was this work that led to the foundation of the modern science of ballistics. Tartaglia's intention was to create a purely mathematical science based on axioms, which was fundamental to the entire subject of mechanics, starting with a limited number of principles and arriving at a series of propositions through a rigid procedure of deduction.
Nevertheless, as Tartaglia himself states, his motive was fundamentally practical and connected to the activities of the sixteenth-century bombardier. A new edition of Nicolò Tartaglia's "Nova scientia," based on the 1558 print run of the second enlarged edition (1550), shows how the emergence of theoretical ballistics was a consequence of the technological innovations that took place in the frame of the practice of iron casting at the turn from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century.
Nevertheless, as Tartaglia himself states, his motive was fundamentally practical and connected to the activities of the sixteenth-century bombardier. A new edition of Nicolò Tartaglia's "Nova scientia," based on the 1558 print run of the second enlarged edition (1550), shows how the emergence of theoretical ballistics was a consequence of the technological innovations that took place in the frame of the practice of iron casting at the turn from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century.
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Language
English
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
548 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8442-5258-3 (9783844252583)
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Author
Matteo Valleriani is affiliated to Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany. He is an expert on ancient and early modern mechanics and his research work focuses especially on the role of technology in the process of emergence on new theoretical scientific knowledge. Matteo Valleriani is author of the book "Galileo Engineer," published in 2010 by Springer Dordrecht in the series Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.