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Item Number: 111612
Title: La via delle acque (1500-1700) : Appropriazione delle arti e trasformazione delle matematiche
Author: Maffioli, Cesare S
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788822260086
Description: Firenze: Olschki, 2010. 24cm., pbk., 394pp., 28 illus., 1 folding color plate. Summary: The transformation of mathematics in the 16th and 17th centuries was partly due to the intellectual appropriation of the practical knowledge of the arts. The author explores this theme by discussing the work of three key figures – Cardano, Castelli and Guglielmini – and by examining the case of the science of water. La via delle acque shows that the appropriation of the mechanical arts strengthened the connection between mathematics, nature and the arts and gave a new impulse to the ancient philosophical idea of the naturalness of mathematics. (Hyperchen, Testi e studi per la storia della cultura del Rinascimento, 4)
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