Object Details
- Creator
- Tartaglia, Niccolò
- Book Title
- Nova scientia
- Caption
- Man and Telescope at Cliff
- Educational Notes
- In 1537, Nicolò Tartaglia, an Italian mathematician, published 'Nova scientia', which means new science. Tartaglia wrote this influential work about ballistics, the study of projectiles, and included a lot of mathematical analysis. He was able to show the true path of a cannonball when its fired from a cannon, and that its trajectory is curved and not straight. It was this work that led to the foundation of the modern science of ballistics. This science usually studies projectiles fired from guns, rockets, and guided missiles. It is also involved in spaceflight, something that was totally unimaginable at the time Tartaglia wrote his book.
- 1537
- Publication Date
- 1537
- Image ID
- SIL-novascientia00tart_0088
- Catalog ID
- 124077
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Type
- Prints
- Publisher
- Vinegia : S. da Sabio
- See more items in
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- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Ballistics
- Math
- Projectiles
- Tartaglia
- Trajectory
- Angles
- Language
- Latin
- Record ID
- silgoi_110699
