Hydrostatics on the fray
Tartaglia, Cardano and the recovering of sunken ships
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8395293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Virginia Iommi Echeverría (0000-0001-6930-7199, Pontificial Catholic University of Valparaiso, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 479-491 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0874 • E-ISSN: 1474-001X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s000708741100029x |
| OpenAlex | W2066818492 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
In his 1551 Travagliata invenzione , the Italian mathematician Niccolò Tartaglia described a device for raising sunken ships. Despite his claim of originality, his contemporary Girolamo Cardano had described a similar method in his famous work De subtilitate , which was published a year before. A comparison between these methods reveals the uniqueness of Tartaglia's approach, for he combines an explicit defence of the horror vacui principle with an implicit negation of rarefaction. In this article I show the complexities of this conception and stress the importance of keeping the personal argument between both authors in mind when interpreting their descriptions of wreck-salvage operations
Argument (complex analysis · Art · Art history · Literature · Mathematical analysis · Originality · Social science · Sociology · Uniqueness · Chemistry · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Maritime Navigation and Safety · Mathematics · Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |