Homage to Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica 1644–2022: Text, Transcription, Commentaries and Selected Essays as New Historical Insights

ISBN-13: 9783031069628 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 790 str.

Raffaele Pisano; Jean Dhombres; Patricia Radelet de Grave

Opis

Evangelista Torricelli exemplifies the use the moderns made of the ancients' mathematical methods. Celebrating Evangelista Torricelli's monumental Opera geometrica, this book marks 378 years since its publication (1644-2022). This homage to Torricelli introduces the magnificent major work in Mechanics and Mathematics of a brilliant Archimedean–and–Galilean scientist to modern readers.Opera geometrica deals with Motion & Mechanics and Geometry & Infinitesimals. In quibus Archimedis doctrina Torricelli also presents his mechanical principle of equilibrium – the foundation of the modern Principle of Virtual Work/Static.
This outstanding source and research book spotlights the relevance and originality of Torricelli’s Mechanics, and is the first and most profound analysis of the Opera geometrica to date. The historical study is achieved in extensive Introduction, 5 Essays and an accurate Transcription of Opera geometrica with parallel side–by–side text, including substantive explicative notes. The book is an accessible avenue to understanding this work by leading authorities who offer much-needed insights into the relationship Physics–Mathematics, Mechanics and Fundamentals. It appeals to historians, epistemologist and scientists.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Part I: The Papers.- Chapter 1. A new Cycloid Narrative centered on Torricelli and Roberval to Understand the Diverse Ways of the Mathematical Revolution (Jean Dhombres).- Chapter 2. Historical and Methodological Details on the De motu gravium naturaliter descendentium in Torricelli’s Opera Gometrica (1644) (Raffaele Pisano and Paolo Bussotti).- Chapter 3. Torricelli’s proof of Galileo’s Assumption on the Velocity Acquired at the End of a Free Fall (Patricia Radelet–de Grave).- Chapter 4. Why Publish a Book of Geometry in Seventeenth-Century Europe? Science, Status, and Print Culture in Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica (1644) (John B. Shank).- Chapter 5. Encounters with the Infinite: From Torricelli to Gödel (Martin Davis).- Part II:  A Critical Transcription & Translation of The Opera Geometrica, 1644.- Chapter 6. Introduction to a Critical Transcription.- Chapter 7. Image-Text & Transcription.- Part III: Epilogue.- Chapter 8. Epilogue [by…………] Chapter 9. Torricelli: Historical Source Introductory.- Index.
 

 

Blurb

Evangelista Torricelli exemplifies the use the moderns made of the ancients' mathematical methods. Celebrating Evangelista Torricelli's monumental Opera geometrica, this book marks 380 years since its publication (1644-2024). This homage to Torricelli introduces the magnificent major work in Mechanics and Mathematics of a brilliant Archimedean–and–Galilean scientist to modern readers.

Opera geometrica deals with Motion & Mechanics and Geometry & Infinitesimals. In quibus Archimedis doctrina Torricelli also presents his mechanical principle of equilibrium – the foundation of the modern Principle of Virtual Work/Static.

This outstanding source and research book spotlights the relevance and originality of Torricelli’s Mechanics, and is the first and most profound analysis of the Opera geometrica to date. The historical study is achieved in extensive Introduction, 5 Essays and an accurate Transcription of Opera geometrica with parallel side–by–side text, including substantive explicative notes. The book is an accessible avenue to understanding this work by leading authorities who offer much-needed insights into the relationship Physics–Mathematics, Mechanics and Fundamentals. It appeals to historians, epistemologists and scientists.