Metallurgy, Ballistics and Epistemic Instruments: The Nova scientia of Nicolò Tartaglia – A New Edition

• Autore: Matteo Valleriani
• Pubblicazione: Edition Open Access, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (360 p.)
• Soggetto non controllato: Renaissance; violent motion; quadrant; MPRL; Edition Open Access; metallurgy; Tartaglia; mechanics; ballistics; artillery
• Altri autori: Valleriani, Matteo
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo abbreviato (Periodici): MAX PLANCK RESEARCH LIBRARY FOR THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE / SOURCES ; 6
• Altri titoli varianti: Metallurgy, Ballistics and Epistemic Instruments
• Titolo autorizzato: Metallurgy, Ballistics and Epistemic Instruments: The Nova scientia of Nicolò Tartaglia – A New Edition
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996320835403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno