Tartaglia’s Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century

“The book is written in plain language and full of remarkable historical and scientific details. It is a meaningful historical book for scholars and for teachers. Its plain style makes it also accessible to advanced students. In my opinion, it is of interest for historians of science and ideas as well as for physicists and mathematicians. I strongly recommend this outstanding volume.” (Romano Gatto, Metascience, Vol. 28 (3), November 2019)“This is valuable for scholars as well as teachers of the history of math and science. It is very educational for a student of math and science to read the original work on occasion and see how the ideas and principles of math and science were developed and perfected. If you are a teacher … interested in including material about the work of Tartaglia in your course or in your research, this book is what you are looking for.” (Charles Ashbacher, MAA Reviews, maa.org, December, 2015)

• Preface by Patricia Radelet-de Grave.- Acknowledgments.- Remarks for the Reader.-   Introduction.- PART I  –  Biographical Sketches & Science in Context.- 1 Niccolò Tartaglia and the Renaissance Society between Science and Technique. Niccolò Fontana called Tartaglia.- 1.1. Biographical and Scientific Sketches.- 1.2.Tartaglia’s Conceptual Stream in the Renaissance.- 1.3. Physics and Architecture: On Ballistics & Fortifications.- 1.4. On the Opera Archimedis and Archimedis de insidentibus aquae.- 1.5. Contents, Former Pupils and Philological Notes.- 2. Ancient and Modern Statics in the Renaissance.  The Background.- 2.1.The scientia de ponderibus in the Middle Ages.- 2.2. Revival during the Age of Humanism.- 2.3. Tartaglia’s Legacy. A Transition between Science of Weights and Modern Statics.- PART II – History & Historical Epistemology Analyses.-  3The Analysis of Books VII and VIII of Quesiti et inventioni diverse.-  A Historical Epistemology Outline on Early Statics in the Books VII and VIII.- 3.1. The Analysis of Book VII (1554).-  3.2.The Analysis of Book VIII (1554).- PART III – Translations & Transcriptions 4. General Considerations.- 4.1. The Quesiti et inventioni diverse (1554).- 4.2. Philological Notes on Iordani opusculum de ponderositate (1565).- 4.3. Book VII of Quesiti et inventioni diverse (1554).-  4.4.  Book VIII of Quesiti et inventioni diverse (1554).- 4.5. The Italian Critical Transcriptions.- 4.6. The Iordaniopusculum de ponderositate (1565).- PART IV – Circulation of Knowledge & Conclusion.- 5 Foreign Editions of Quesiti et invention diverse. General Considerations.- 5.1. Quesiti Foreign Editions.- 5.2. Bibliographical Notes.- Conclusion.- 6 Conclusion.- Concluding Remarks.- References.- Microfilm Tartalea.- Main Quesiti Accounts.- Index.