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Author:   Raffaele Pisano ,  Jean Dhombres ,  Patricia Radelet de Grave ,  Paolo Bussotti
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Volume:   55
ISBN:  

9783031069659

ISBN 10:   303106965
Pages:   1113
Publication Date:   24 March 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction.- Part I: The Papers.- Chapter 1. A new Cycloid Narrative centered on Torricelli and Roberval to Understand the Diverse Ways of the Mathematical Revolution (Jean Dhombres).- Chapter 2. Historical and Methodological Details on the De motu gravium naturaliter descendentium in Torricelli’s Opera Gometrica (1644) (Raffaele Pisano and Paolo Bussotti).- Chapter 3. Torricelli’s proof of Galileo’s Assumption on the Velocity Acquired at the End of a Free Fall (Patricia Radelet–de Grave).- Chapter 4. Why Publish a Book of Geometry in Seventeenth-Century Europe? Science, Status, and Print Culture in Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica (1644) (John B. Shank).- Chapter 5. Encounters with the Infinite: From Torricelli to Gödel (Martin Davis).- Part II:  A Critical Transcription & Translation of The Opera Geometrica, 1644.- Chapter 6. Introduction to a Critical Transcription.- Chapter 7. Image-Text & Transcription.- Part III: Epilogue.- Chapter 8. Epilogue [by…………] Chapter 9. Torricelli: Historical Source Introductory.- Index.    

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