Thursday, 31 October 2013

Triangolazione

Domenico da Chivasso. Pratica Geometriae, ms, Firenze, 1346, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, San Marco 215, c.127r.

http://redi.imss.fi.it/invenzioni/index.php/Tavoletta

Vedi anche:
http://wissensgeschichte.biblhertz.it:8080/Glossario/Glossario_Italiano/monicometro/edit_main

Per il moto dei proiettili

Nicolas Bion. Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instruments de mathematique, Paris, 1725, tav. 18.

http://redi.imss.fi.it/invenzioni/index.php/Archipendolo

Scheda di Filippo Camerota

Un modo di misurar distanze

Cosimo Bartoli. Del modo di misurare le distantie, Venezia, 1564, p. 26r.

vedi l'articolo sullo speccio orizzontale di Filippo Camerota

http://redi.imss.fi.it/invenzioni/index.php/Specchio_orizzontale

Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Robert Grosseteste in the history of science

Recently I have studied some treatises written by Robert Grosseteste.
Here the links to some papers:

1. arXiv:1302.1885 [pdf] Reflection and refraction in Robert Grosseteste's De Lineis, Angulis et Figuris, Amelia Carolina Sparavigna ,  Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
2. arXiv:1301.3037 [pdf] The four elements in Robert Grosseteste's De Impressionibus Elementorum, Amelia Carolina Sparavigna ,  Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
3. arXiv:1212.6336 [pdf] Robert Grosseteste's colours, Amelia Carolina Sparavigna ,  Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
4. arXiv:1212.1007 [pdf] Sound and motion in the De Generatione Sonorum, a treatise by Robert Grosseteste, Amelia Carolina Sparavigna , Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
5. arXiv:1211.5961 [pdf] Translation and discussion of the De Iride, a treatise on optics by Robert Grosseteste, Amelia Carolina Sparavigna , Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)