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Homage to Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica 1644–2024

Text, Transcription, Commentaries and Selected Essays as New Historical Insights

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Authors:
  1. Raffaele Pisano

    1. HOPAST at IEMN, Department of Physics, Lille University–CNRS, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

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  2. Jean Dhombres

    1. CAK-EHEES, Paris, France

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  3. Patricia Radelet de Grave

    1. Catholic Louvain La Neuve University, IRMP, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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  4. Paolo Bussotti

    1. Udine University, DIUM, Udine, Italy

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  • First profound analysis of the influential Opera Geometrica
  • Offers an accessible route to understanding the Opera Geometrica
  • Declares Archimedean Approach in Science of Equilibrium

Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (LEUS, volume 55)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  3. Selected Essays

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Introducing Selected Essays on Opera Geometrica (1644)

      • Raffaele Pisano, Paolo Bussotti
      Pages 95-97

    3. Encounters with Infinity: From Torricelli to Gödel

      • Martin Davis
      Pages 99-105

    4. A New Cycloid Narrative Centered on Torricelli and Roberval to Understand the Diverse Ways of the Mathematical Revolution

      • Jean Dhombres
      Pages 107-187

    5. Historical and Methodological Details on the De Motu Gravium Naturaliter Descendentium in Torricelli’s Opera Gometrica (1644)

      • Raffaele Pisano, Paolo Bussotti
      Pages 189-224

    6. Torricelli’s Proof of Galileo’s Assumption on the Velocity Acquired at the End of a Free Fall

      • Patricia Radelet de Grave
      Pages 225-261

    7. Why Publish a Book of Geometry in Seventeenth-Century Europe? Science, Status, and Print Culture in Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica (1644)

      • J. B. Shank
      Pages 263-277

  4. Critical Transcription of the Opera Geometrica, 1644

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-279
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    2. Opera Geometrica (1644) Transcription: General Considerations

      • Raffaele Pisano
      Pages 281-282

    3. Opera Geometrica (1644) Transcription: Image–Text Side by Side

      • Raffaele Pisano, Paolo Bussotti, Patricia Radelet de Grave
      Pages 283-1088

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 1089-1113
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • HOPAST at IEMN, Department of Physics, Lille University–CNRS, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

    Raffaele Pisano

  • CAK-EHEES, Paris, France

    Jean Dhombres

  • Catholic Louvain La Neuve University, IRMP, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Patricia Radelet de Grave

  • Udine University, DIUM, Udine, Italy

    Paolo Bussotti

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Homage to Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica 1644–2024

  • Book Subtitle: Text, Transcription, Commentaries and Selected Essays as New Historical Insights

  • Authors: Raffaele Pisano, Jean Dhombres, Patricia Radelet de Grave, Paolo Bussotti

  • Series Title: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06963-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06962-8Published: 23 March 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06965-9Due: 23 April 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06963-5Published: 22 March 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9775

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9783

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 1113

  • Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations, 507 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History, general, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, History of Mathematical Sciences

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