Ostilio Ricci

Ostilio Ricci (1540, Fermo1603, Florența) a fost un matematician italian.

Ostilio Ricci
Date personale
Născut1540[1]
Fermo, Marchia Anconitana, Statele Papale
Decedat1603 (62 de ani)[1][2]
Florența, Marele Ducat de Toscana
Ocupațiematematician
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Activitate
DomiciliuPeru 
Alma materUniversità degli Studi di Brescia[*][[Università degli Studi di Brescia (university in Italy)|]] 
OrganizațieAccademia delle arti del disegno[*][[Accademia delle arti del disegno (academy of artists in Florence, Italy)|]] 

Biografie

A fost profesor universitar în Florența la Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, fondata in 1560 de Giorgio Vasari. Ricci is also known for being Galileo Galilei's teacher.

Ricci a fost matematician în cadrul curții lui Francesco I de' Medici, Mare duce de Toscana in Florenta, in 1580, when Galileo attended his lectures in Pisa.

Galileo was enrolled at the University of Pisa, by his father Vincenzio, in order to study medicine. Instead, Galilei more interested in mathematics, after meeting Ostilio Ricci, a former student of Niccolò Tartaglia. Ricci considered the mathematics not to be a distinct science, but a practical tool for problems in mechanics and engineering. Ostilio Ricci is systematically cited in the various biographies of Galileo Galilei.

Lucrari

  • Ostilio Ricci, Problemi di Geometria Pratica: L'uso dell'Archimetro, Manuscript, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, II – 57

Referințe

  • T. B. Settle, "Ostilio Ricci, a bridge between Alberti and Galileo", in XIIe Congrès International d'Histoire des Science, Actes, Paris, 1971, III B, pp. 121–126.
  • F. Vinci, Ostilio Ricci da Fermo, Maestro di Galileo Galilei, Fermo, 1929.
  • James Reston, Jr., Galileo: A Life, Harper Collins, 1994.
  • Albert Presas i Puig, Ostilio Ricci, the Practical Education and the Canon of Technical Knowledge at the Beginning of the Italian Renaissance, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, 2002.

Legături externe

  1. „Ostilio Ricci”, Gemeinsame Normdatei, accesat în
  2. Ostilio Ricci, opac.vatlib.it
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