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

Pesi e carrucole


Leonardo da Vinci - Codice Arundel

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 [pdfSound 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 [pdfTranslation 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)

Monday, 7 October 2013

Sunday, 11 August 2013

"Moving dunes on the Google Earth" is my paper on arXiv, published 4 January 2013. It shows how using GH time series you can see the motion of dunes. Here an example.


To see a movie, please visit Moving sand dunes ... post

NASA spacecraft detects changes in Martian sand dunes



May 9, 2012 — NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed that movement in sand dune fields on the Red Planet occurs on a surprisingly large scale, about the same as in dune fields on Earth.