Metallurgy, Ballistics and Epistemic Instruments : The Nova scientia of Nicolò Tartaglia. A New Edition （2013. 360 S. 210 mm）

Valleriani, Matteo

EPUBLI（2013発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版
• 商品コード 9783844252583

Description

(Short description)
A commented edition of the work with which modern ballistics emerged in the 16th century.
(Text)
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.