Tartaglia's Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century: Selections from Quesiti Et Inventioni Diverse: Books VII-VIII

by Raffaele Pisano and Danilo Capecchi

Book Overview

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 was concerned mainly with what is now called statics and was referred to as the Scientia de ponderibus, generally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401778310
• ISBN13: 9789401778312
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"