Nova Scientia

work by Tartaglia

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In Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia
Tartaglia’s Nova Scientia (1537; “A New Science”), a treatise on gunnery, is an important pioneering effort to establish the laws of falling bodies. Soon after the publication of this work, Tartaglia was asked by Girolamo Cardano, physician and lecturer in Milan, to publish his solution to…
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