TY - BOOK ID - 136876637 TI - Metallurgy, Ballistics and Epistemic Instruments: The Nova scientia of Nicolò Tartaglia – A New Edition AU - Matteo Valleriani AU - Valleriani,Matteo PY - 2013 PB - Edition Open Access DB - UniCat KW - Renaissance KW - violent motion KW - quadrant KW - MPRL KW - Edition Open Access KW - metallurgy KW - Tartaglia KW - mechanics KW - ballistics KW - artillery UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136876637 AB - In 1537, Nicolò Tartaglia (1500–1557), a mathematician from Brescia, published "Nova scientia." It was this work that led to the foundation of the modern science of ballistics. Tartaglia’s intention was to create a purely mathematical science based on axioms, which was fundamental to the entire subject of mechanics, starting with a limited number of principles and arriving at a series of propositions through a rigid procedure of deduction. Nevertheless, as Tartaglia himself states, his motive was fundamentally practical and connected to the activities of the sixteenth-century bombardier. A new edition of Nicolò Tartaglia’s "Nova scientia," based on the 1558 print run of the second enlarged edition (1550), shows how the emergence of theoretical ballistics was a consequence of the technological innovations that took place in the frame of the practice of iron casting at the turn from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century. ER -