Niccolò Guicciardini
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 986033 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Niccolò Guicciardini |
| PRENOMES | Niccolò |
| SOBRENOME | Guicciardini |
| ASSINATURA | GUICCIARDINI N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bergamo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1550-3191 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
La naissance de la mécanique analytique dans le réseau épistolaire de Pierre Varignon (1690–1710)
Collaboration and Rivalry in the Publishing of Newton’s Mathematics
David Gregory's manuscript ‘Isaaci Neutoni Methodus fluxionum’ (1694)
David Gregory's manuscript ‘Isaaci Neutoni methodus fluxionum’ is the first systematic presentation of the method of fluxions written by somebody other than Newton. It was penned in 1694, when Gregory was the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford. I provide information about its content, sources and circulation. This short treatise reveals what Newton allowed to be known about his method in the mid-1690s. Further, it sheds light upon Gregory'…
The variety of readings of Archimedes in the scientific revolution
During the Scientific Revolution, the works of Archimedes played a momentous role. The geometers and natural philosophers of seventeenth-century Europe used Archimedes as a resource for tasks that varied considerably. In this paper, after some introductory remarks, I will consider and contrast the different readings of Archimedes provided by Leibniz and Newton. Leibniz's Archimedes is a precursor of calculus because of his use of exhaustion metho…
Anachronisms in the History of Mathematics
Deceptive familiarity
The differential equations as written by Leibniz and by his immediate followers look very similar to the ones in use nowadays. They are familiar to our students of mathematics and physics. Yet, in order to make them fully compatible with the conventions adopted in our textbooks, we have to change just a few symbols. Such “domesticating” renderings, however, generate a remarkable shift in meaning, making those very equations – when so reformulated…
Lessons for the Historian of Newtonian Mathematics
Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy
comptes rendus 229 community in Florence.The essay, by showing the fertile ground for exchanges between Spanish intellectuals and prominent figures from Florence's finest cultural environment, adds a great deal to our knowledge of Florentine intellectuals and courtiers and the Spanish residents in the city of Machiavelli.José Javier Rodríguez brings to the stage another important figure of the Spanish theatre, Calderón de la Barca, and shows how …
The publication of Newton's Opera Omnia in Geneva and Lausanne (1739-1761)
During the eighteenth century, several towns located in what is known today as the Suisse romande were extremely receptive toward scientific culture, and most notably Newtonianism. In this paper I deal with a nine-volume publication of Newton's Opera Omnia that was planned in Geneva and Lausanne during the late 1730s and 1740s. This publication has not received the attention it deserves. To the best of my knowledge, even an awareness of its exist…
Digitizing Isaac NewtonRobert Iliffe (Director). The Newton Project . http
A New Edition of Newton’s History of the Early Church
Pablo Toribio Pérez (ed.) Isaac Newton, Historia ecclesiastica (de origine schismatico ecclesiae papisticae bicornis) (Nueva Roma 38) (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2013), pp. 632, € 45.00, 978–84–00–09736–3. This volume presents a critical edition of a lengthy Newtonian treatise (c. 50,000 words) on the early history of the Church, with annotations, a complete study of the sources, and a Spanish translation. Pablo Tori…
Editing Newton in Geneva and Rome
This contribution examines the circumstances of composition of the annotated edition of Newton's Principia that was printed in Geneva in 1739-1742, which ran to several editions and was still in print in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century. This edition was the work of the Genevan Professor of Mathematics, Jean Louis Calandrini, and of two Minim friars based in Rome, Thomas Le Seur and François Jacquier. The study of the context in which this e…
The Role of Musical Analogies in Newton's Optical and Cosmological Work
Newton devoted some pages of his Opticks to describing an analogy between the color spectrum and the musical scale. Furthermore, in manuscripts penned in the 1690s, the so-called Classical Scholia, he claimed that Pythagoras had used a musical analogy in order to express knowledge of a heliocentric planetary system governed by universal gravitation. On this basis, historians of music and of mathematics have lately claimed that Newton endorsed myt…
John Wallis as editor of Newton's mathematical work
This paper explores Wallis's role as editor of Newton's mathematical work. My objective is to understand how two mathematicians who held different views concerning mathematical method could nonetheless cooperate with one another quite effectively. Most notably, Wallis and Newton pursued different policies as far as the printing of algebra is concerned. In the 1690s Newton held the view that algebra is a heuristic method ‘not worthy of publication…
Development of Newtonian Calculus in Britain, 1700-1800
Fluxions in Print, 1700−1715
This chapter explores the priorities and values that prompted Newton to finally move from scribal to printed publication. In 1704, Newton’s mathematical work Opticks got published, followed shortly by Enumeratio and De Quadratura. Newton’s De Quadratura became a required reading for his principia, as readers needed to understand the principles of the former to competently take on the more complex systems posited in the latter. The chapter then ex…
Isaac Newton on mathematical certainty and method
Robert Hooke. Tercentennial Studies
La época del punto
Según la concepción heredada, los matemáticos británicos del siglo XVIII fueron responsables de una decadencia de las matemáticas en el país de Newton; una decadencia atribuida al chovinismo y a una preferencia por el pensamiento geométrico. Este artículo debate este punto de vista describiendo, primero, la complejidad de la herencia matemática de Newton y su recepción durante las primeras décadas del siglo XVIII. Una sección dedicada al monument…
The Single Face of Janus
Reconsidering the Hooke-Newton Debate on Gravitation
Dot-age
According to the received view, eighteenth-century British mathematicians were responsible for a decline of mathematics in the country of Newton; a decline attributed to chauvinism and a preference for geometrical thinking. This paper challenges this view by first describing the complexity of Newton's mathematical heritage and its reception in the early decades of the eighteenth century. A section devoted to Maclaurin's monumental Treatise of Flu…
Geometry and Mechanics in the Preface to Newton’s Principia
Isaac Newton and the publication of his mathematical manuscripts
Isaac Newton’s natural philosophy
Editing Newton in Geneva and Rome
This contribution examines the circumstances of composition of the annotated edition of Newton's Principia that was printed in Geneva in 1739-1742, which ran to several editions and was still in print in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century. This edition was the work of the Genevan Professor of Mathematics, Jean Louis Calandrini, and of two Minim friars based in Rome, Thomas Le Seur and François Jacquier. The study of the context in which this e…
The Role of Musical Analogies in Newton's Optical and Cosmological Work
Newton devoted some pages of his Opticks to describing an analogy between the color spectrum and the musical scale. Furthermore, in manuscripts penned in the 1690s, the so-called Classical Scholia, he claimed that Pythagoras had used a musical analogy in order to express knowledge of a heliocentric planetary system governed by universal gravitation. On this basis, historians of music and of mathematics have lately claimed that Newton endorsed myt…
Reconsidering the Hooke-Newton Debate on Gravitation
Lessons for the Historian of Newtonian Mathematics
John Wallis as editor of Newton's mathematical work
This paper explores Wallis's role as editor of Newton's mathematical work. My objective is to understand how two mathematicians who held different views concerning mathematical method could nonetheless cooperate with one another quite effectively. Most notably, Wallis and Newton pursued different policies as far as the printing of algebra is concerned. In the 1690s Newton held the view that algebra is a heuristic method ‘not worthy of publication…
Dot-age
According to the received view, eighteenth-century British mathematicians were responsible for a decline of mathematics in the country of Newton; a decline attributed to chauvinism and a preference for geometrical thinking. This paper challenges this view by first describing the complexity of Newton's mathematical heritage and its reception in the early decades of the eighteenth century. A section devoted to Maclaurin's monumental Treatise of Flu…
Geometry and Mechanics in the Preface to Newton’s Principia
Isaac Newton and the publication of his mathematical manuscripts
The Development of Newtonian Calculus in Britain, 1700–1800
This book examines the development of calculus in Britain during the century following Newton. It is usually maintained that this was a period of decline in British mathematics. However, the author's research has shown that the methods used by researchers of the period yielded considerable success in laying the foundations and investigating the applications of the calculus. Even when 'decline' was at its worst point, in mid-century, the foundatio…
Katherine Neal, From Discrete to Continuous
Dot-age
According to the received view, eighteenth-century British mathematicians were responsible for a decline of mathematics in the country of Newton; a decline attributed to chauvinism and a preference for geometrical thinking. This paper challenges this view by first describing the complexity of Newton's mathematical heritage and its reception in the early decades of the eighteenth century. A section devoted to Maclaurin's monumental Treatise of Flu…
Geometry and Mechanics in the Preface to Newton’s Principia
Isaac Newton and the publication of his mathematical manuscripts
Isaac Newton’s natural philosophy
The Single Face of Janus
Reconsidering the Hooke-Newton Debate on Gravitation
Robert Hooke. Tercentennial Studies
La época del punto
Según la concepción heredada, los matemáticos británicos del siglo XVIII fueron responsables de una decadencia de las matemáticas en el país de Newton; una decadencia atribuida al chovinismo y a una preferencia por el pensamiento geométrico. Este artículo debate este punto de vista describiendo, primero, la complejidad de la herencia matemática de Newton y su recepción durante las primeras décadas del siglo XVIII. Una sección dedicada al monument…
Development of Newtonian Calculus in Britain, 1700-1800
Fluxions in Print, 1700−1715
This chapter explores the priorities and values that prompted Newton to finally move from scribal to printed publication. In 1704, Newton’s mathematical work Opticks got published, followed shortly by Enumeratio and De Quadratura. Newton’s De Quadratura became a required reading for his principia, as readers needed to understand the principles of the former to competently take on the more complex systems posited in the latter. The chapter then ex…
Isaac Newton on mathematical certainty and method
John Wallis as editor of Newton's mathematical work
This paper explores Wallis's role as editor of Newton's mathematical work. My objective is to understand how two mathematicians who held different views concerning mathematical method could nonetheless cooperate with one another quite effectively. Most notably, Wallis and Newton pursued different policies as far as the printing of algebra is concerned. In the 1690s Newton held the view that algebra is a heuristic method ‘not worthy of publication…
The Role of Musical Analogies in Newton's Optical and Cosmological Work
Newton devoted some pages of his Opticks to describing an analogy between the color spectrum and the musical scale. Furthermore, in manuscripts penned in the 1690s, the so-called Classical Scholia, he claimed that Pythagoras had used a musical analogy in order to express knowledge of a heliocentric planetary system governed by universal gravitation. On this basis, historians of music and of mathematics have lately claimed that Newton endorsed myt…
Digitizing Isaac NewtonRobert Iliffe (Director). The Newton Project . http
A New Edition of Newton’s History of the Early Church
Pablo Toribio Pérez (ed.) Isaac Newton, Historia ecclesiastica (de origine schismatico ecclesiae papisticae bicornis) (Nueva Roma 38) (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2013), pp. 632, € 45.00, 978–84–00–09736–3. This volume presents a critical edition of a lengthy Newtonian treatise (c. 50,000 words) on the early history of the Church, with annotations, a complete study of the sources, and a Spanish translation. Pablo Tori…
Editing Newton in Geneva and Rome
This contribution examines the circumstances of composition of the annotated edition of Newton's Principia that was printed in Geneva in 1739-1742, which ran to several editions and was still in print in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century. This edition was the work of the Genevan Professor of Mathematics, Jean Louis Calandrini, and of two Minim friars based in Rome, Thomas Le Seur and François Jacquier. The study of the context in which this e…
The publication of Newton's Opera Omnia in Geneva and Lausanne (1739-1761)
During the eighteenth century, several towns located in what is known today as the Suisse romande were extremely receptive toward scientific culture, and most notably Newtonianism. In this paper I deal with a nine-volume publication of Newton's Opera Omnia that was planned in Geneva and Lausanne during the late 1730s and 1740s. This publication has not received the attention it deserves. To the best of my knowledge, even an awareness of its exist…
Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy
comptes rendus 229 community in Florence.The essay, by showing the fertile ground for exchanges between Spanish intellectuals and prominent figures from Florence's finest cultural environment, adds a great deal to our knowledge of Florentine intellectuals and courtiers and the Spanish residents in the city of Machiavelli.José Javier Rodríguez brings to the stage another important figure of the Spanish theatre, Calderón de la Barca, and shows how …
Anachronisms in the History of Mathematics
Deceptive familiarity
The differential equations as written by Leibniz and by his immediate followers look very similar to the ones in use nowadays. They are familiar to our students of mathematics and physics. Yet, in order to make them fully compatible with the conventions adopted in our textbooks, we have to change just a few symbols. Such “domesticating” renderings, however, generate a remarkable shift in meaning, making those very equations – when so reformulated…
Lessons for the Historian of Newtonian Mathematics
David Gregory's manuscript ‘Isaaci Neutoni Methodus fluxionum’ (1694)
David Gregory's manuscript ‘Isaaci Neutoni methodus fluxionum’ is the first systematic presentation of the method of fluxions written by somebody other than Newton. It was penned in 1694, when Gregory was the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford. I provide information about its content, sources and circulation. This short treatise reveals what Newton allowed to be known about his method in the mid-1690s. Further, it sheds light upon Gregory'…
The variety of readings of Archimedes in the scientific revolution
During the Scientific Revolution, the works of Archimedes played a momentous role. The geometers and natural philosophers of seventeenth-century Europe used Archimedes as a resource for tasks that varied considerably. In this paper, after some introductory remarks, I will consider and contrast the different readings of Archimedes provided by Leibniz and Newton. Leibniz's Archimedes is a precursor of calculus because of his use of exhaustion metho…
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