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UNINA9910794685703321 |
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The Derveni papyrus : a conversation with Richard Janko / / edited with an introduction by Howard Burton |
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[Place of publication not identified] : , : Ideas Roadshow, , 2021 |
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©2013 |
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1 online resource (43 pages) |
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Ideas Roadshow Conversations |
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Intro -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- The Conversation -- I. A Great Discovery -- II. Derveni Details -- III. An Ancient Culture War -- IV. Rose-coloured Glasses? -- V. Summing Up -- Continuing the Conversation. |
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This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Richard Janko, Gerald F. Else Distinguished University Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. This wide-ranging conversation covers Richard Janko's research on the Derveni Papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript from the 4th century BCE and the most important text relating to early Greek literature, science, religion and philosophy to have come to light since the Renaissance. This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, Discovering the Past, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter. Howard Burton was the Founding Director of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and an MA in philosophy. This book is part of an expanding series of 100+ Ideas Roadshow conversations, each one presenting a wealth of candid insights from a leading expert in a focused yet informal setting to provide a uniquely accessible window into frontline research and scholarship that wouldn't otherwise be encountered through standard lectures and textbooks. |
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UNINA9910134009903321 |
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Matteo Valleriani |
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Metallurgy, Ballistics and Epistemic Instruments: The Nova scientia of Nicolò Tartaglia - A New Edition |
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Edition Open Access, 2013 |
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1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Sources 6: Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge |
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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. |
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