Teaching physics during the 17th century: some examples from the works of Evangelista Torricelli
History and Philosophy of Physics
2015-07-30 v2
Abstract
This paper is proposing some physics problems from a book, De Motu Gravium Naturaliter Descendentium, written by Evangelista Torricelli, with the aim of showing how physics was taught in a university, that of Pisa, in the 17th century.
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@article{arxiv.1307.4942,
title = {Teaching physics during the 17th century: some examples from the works of Evangelista Torricelli},
author = {Amelia Carolina Sparavigna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.4942},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
De Motu Gravium Naturaliter Descendentium is available in Opera geometrica, a Google eBook, available at http://archive.org/details/operageometrica00torrgoog (new layout of paper after some emendations)