Tartaglia’s Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century Selections from Quesiti et inventioni diverse: Books VII–VIII /

• Main Authors: Pisano, Raffaele (Author), Capecchi, Danilo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 28
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematics.; History.; Mechanics.; Mechanics, Applied.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.

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 w...