XL National Congress of the Italian Society for the History of Physics and Astronomy

Session

Erone e Leonardo

3

8 Sept 2020, 10:40

Conveners

Erone e Leonardo

• Pasquale Tucci

21. The mechanics of Heron and his copies Missing sheets or multiplicity of interests?

Dr Ferriello, Giuseppina (sisfa)

08/09/2020, 10:40

sisfa 2020

The transmission of Hero’s Mechanics through Persian manuscripts is a recent line of studies that was opened in the nineties by the random discovery of a manuscript brought from Isfahan to Paris by Francois Pétis de la Croix , emissary of Louis XIV.
The copies attest to the continuity of the diffusion of the text, that has application as well as cognitive purposes; however, a reading of...

23. La conservazione della quantità di moto in Leonardo da Vinci

Prof. Recami, Erasmo (Università degli studi di Bergamo)

08/09/2020, 11:05

sisfa 2020

Viene esaminato il contributo di Leonardo da Vinci al metodo sperimentale delle scienze fisiche attraverso due rilevanti esempi di meccanica. Si mostra che Leonardo ebbe piena coscienza della legge della conservazione della quantità di moto.