Homage to Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica 1644–2024
Text, Transcription, Commentaries and Selected Essays as New Historical Insights
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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.
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.
First profound analysis of the influential Opera Geometrica Offers an accessible route to understanding the Opera Geometrica Declares Archimedean Approach in Science of Equilibrium
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Raffaele Pisano
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Torricelli Opera Geometrica Relationship Physics-Mathematics Unity Mechanics / Early Statics Proofs' Methods Infinitesimal Geometry / Indivisibles Ancient Geometry / Ad absurdum proofs Centre of Gravity / Archimedean Approach Principle of Virtual Works(–Displacements) Cultural and Methodological Heritages Cycloid Narrative of Mathematical Revolution De motu gravium naturaliter descendentium Galileo’s Assumption on Velocity Acquired End of a Free Fall Geometry in Seventeenth-Century Europe Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica
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“The present volume is the first part of Raffaele Pisano’s Torricelli project and considers a critical transcription of the Opera geometrica published in 1644 ... . This review displays, rather succinctly, a description of the book’s contents. ... It seems to me that this homage to Evangelista Torricelli shines like a diamond in the sky. As the song says.” (Godofredo Tomas Iommi Amunatégui, zbMATH 1559.01013, 2025)
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