Ostilio Ricci ( Italian: Ostilio Ricci da Fermo , 1540-1603) - Italian mathematician , engineer and abbot , student of Niccolo Tartaglia . He was a teacher of Galileo Galilei and a friend of his father Vincenzo . Professor at the University of Pisa , since 1593 - professor at the in Florence (founded in 1560 by Giorgio Vasari ). The court mathematician of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany, Francesco I and Ferdinando I [3] .
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Scientific Activities
About the details of the biography of Ostilio Ricci, practically no information was preserved.
Ricci's range of interests was wide - from hydraulic mechanisms to cosmology . At the Academy, he taught geometry to many future renowned artists, including Giorgio Vasari . Ricci was considered an expert in civil engineering and military architecture.
Ricci also taught mathematics at the University of Pisa . Galileo was originally going to study medicine there, but under the influence of Ostilio Ricci became interested in mathematics. Ricci's lectures on the achievements of Euclid and Archimedes , his orientation on applied methods of mathematics had a profound effect on the views and subsequent works of Galileo [4] .
Viviani in his biography of Galileo writes [4] :
So began the named Ricci to give young Galileo the usual explanations of the definitions, axioms and postulates of the first book, “Beginnings,” and Galileo found these principles so clear and certain that he believed in the inevitable strength and harmony of the whole building of geometry.
In particular, Ricci expressed the opinion, later adopted by Galileo, that the best tool for knowing nature is not Aristotelian logic, but mathematics.
Major Works
- Modo praticale per fare un triangolo rettangolo eguale ad un cerchio .
- Del modo di misurare con la vista , Biblioteca Palatina Lorenese.
- Raccolto di varii instrumenti per misurare con la vista .
- Problemi di geometria pratica: l'uso dell'archimetro , Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, II - 57.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 124239056 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Mathematical Genealogy - 1997.
- ↑ Scifoni F. Dizionario Biografico Universale, Volume IV, David Passigli Tipografo-Editore, Firenze, 1845-46, pp. 828-829.
- ↑ 1 2 Schmutzer E., Schutz V. Childhood, school and university // Galileo Galilei. - M .: Mir, 1987 .-- 140 p.
Literature
- Settle TB Ostilio Ricci, a bridge between Alberti and Galileo // XIIe Congrès International d'Histoire des Science , Actes, Paris, 1971, III B, pp. 121–126. (eng.)
- Vinci F. Ostilio Ricci da Fermo, Maestro di Galileo Galilei, Fermo, 1929. (English)
- 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. (English)
Links
- Biography (Italian)
- Ricci, Ostilio (English) in the project “ Mathematical Genealogy ” (English)
- Ricci biography
- Galileo & Ricci (English)
- Ricci's influence on Galileo