TY  - BOOK
AU  - Matteo Valleriani
AB  - 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.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 20554
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - violent motion
KW  - quadrant
KW  - MPRL
KW  - Edition Open Access
KW  - metallurgy
KW  - Tartaglia
KW  - mechanics
KW  - ballistics
KW  - artillery
L1  - http://www.edition-open-sources.org/sources/6/index.html
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/53257
PB  - Edition Open Access
PY  - 2013
SN  - 9783844252583
TI  - Metallurgy, Ballistics and Epistemic Instruments: The Nova scientia of Nicolò Tartaglia – A New Editionnull
ER  - 
