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Matteo Valleriani (ed.), Metallurgy, Ballistics and Epistemic Instruments. The Nova scientia of Nicolò Tartaglia. A New Edition (Sources 6, Edition open access). Berlin: Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge, 2013. 56+304 pp., ISBN 9783844252583.

Matteo Valleriani (ed.), Metallurgy, Ballistics and Epistemic Instruments. The Nova scientia of... This English translation of Tartaglia’s Scientia Nova is a part of a Max Planck Research Library project launched in 2003 to allow open access to knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (http://www.edition-open-access.de/sources/6/index.html). All the books of this series, available both online and as print-on-demand books, are rare book or manuscripts, difficult to find in libraries and archives. These books are not a traditional critical edition but a “slim handbook” with an important critical apparatus to permit quick access to the author, an historical contextualization, a synthetic analysis of the main topics of the book, and a bibliography compiled by an expert, useful for an historical and historiographical reading of the book. The curator, Matteo Valleriani, coordinates a pool of specialists in each field of the source presented. Tartaglia’s book was published for the first time in 1537 and reprinted in 1550 and 1558. As declared by the author, “la scientia nova” was written to respond to a question asked by a gunner regarding the relationship between inclination and maximum range of an artillery shot. The result was a short treatise dedicated to the geometrical foundation for the theory of motion which concluded that the maximum range of shot http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nuncius (successor of "Annali") Brill

Matteo Valleriani (ed.), Metallurgy, Ballistics and Epistemic Instruments. The Nova scientia of Nicolò Tartaglia. A New Edition (Sources 6, Edition open access). Berlin: Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge, 2013. 56+304 pp., ISBN 9783844252583.

Bernardoni, Andrea
Nuncius (successor of "Annali") , Volume 29 (1): 251 – Jan 1, 2014
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This English translation of Tartaglia’s Scientia Nova is a part of a Max Planck Research Library project launched in 2003 to allow open access to knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (http://www.edition-open-access.de/sources/6/index.html). All the books of this series, available both online and as print-on-demand books, are rare book or manuscripts, difficult to find in libraries and archives. These books are not a traditional critical edition but a “slim handbook” with an important critical apparatus to permit quick access to the author, an historical contextualization, a synthetic analysis of the main topics of the book, and a bibliography compiled by an expert, useful for an historical and historiographical reading of the book. The curator, Matteo Valleriani, coordinates a pool of specialists in each field of the source presented. Tartaglia’s book was published for the first time in 1537 and reprinted in 1550 and 1558. As declared by the author, “la scientia nova” was written to respond to a question asked by a gunner regarding the relationship between inclination and maximum range of an artillery shot. The result was a short treatise dedicated to the geometrical foundation for the theory of motion which concluded that the maximum range of shot

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