How the "New Science" of Cannons Shook up the Aristotelian Cosmos

The curious thing about the historiography on the relationship between early modern science and warfare is that the fact of a connection seems to have been taken for granted, while implications have seldom been investigated. This essay is an attempt to trace those implications by looking at a mathem...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of the history of ideas 2002-07, Vol.63 (3), p.371-397
1. Verfasser:	Henninger-Voss, Mary J.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	16th century Aristotelianism Aristotle Artillery Astronomy Bombardiers Cannonballs Cannons Cosmology Historical studies (History of philosophy. History of ideas) Historiography History History of ideas History of science Italy Kinetics Mathematicians Mathematics Military engineering Philosophy Physics Tartaglia Tartaglia, Niccolo Warfare
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Zusammenfassung:	The curious thing about the historiography on the relationship between early modern science and warfare is that the fact of a connection seems to have been taken for granted, while implications have seldom been investigated. This essay is an attempt to trace those implications by looking at a mathematician who specifically tried to reduce to a mathematical science the military arts, Niccolo Tartaglia.
ISSN:	0022-5037 1086-3222 1086-3222
DOI:	10.1353/jhi.2002.0029