Book ID: CBB519604765

Francisci Maurolyci Archimedea: Tomus B, De momentis (2022)

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Maurolico, Francesco (Author)
Bellé, Riccardo (Editor)
Napolitani, Pier Daniele (Editor)
Beatrice Sisana (Editor)


Fabrizio Serra Editore
Volume: 2


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: xiv, 186 pp.
Language: Latin

Archimedea, the seventh volume of the Edizione Nazionale dell’opera matematica di Francesco Maurolico, contains critical editions of those works that the Messina mathematician devoted to the study of Archimedes, research that he had began before 1528 and that he pursued throughout the whole course of his long mathematical career. This volume is divided into two tomes. Tome B – De momentis – contains the De momentis aequalibus, research on which occupied Maurolico throughout the whole course of his mathematical activity. Begun in the 1520s essentially on the basis of the few notices given in Giorgo Valla’s De expetendis et fugiendis rebus (1501) and as a single libellus that Maurolico thought reflected Archimedes’ original text, it was then expanded and developed into four books. A highly original work, the De momentis introduced important innovations into the Archimedean system, notably the concept of moment as a geometrical magnitude, and the study of the centres of gravity of solids. The section Varia de centris (1565-1569) completes the tome, where Maurolico’s last studies on centres of gravity are collected.

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Authors & Contributors
Ciocci, Argante
Bellé, Riccardo
Beatrice Sisana
Napolitani, Pier Daniele
Maurolico, Francesco
Macchio, Marina
Concepts
Mathematics
Critical editions
Ecdotics; source study (methodology)
Geometry
Physics
Manuscripts
Time Periods
Renaissance
16th century
Medieval
Republic of Venice (697–1797)
Early modern
Ancient
Places
Italy
Europe
Pisa (Italy)
Sicily
France
Iran
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