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'''Alessandro Marchetti''' (17 March 1633 – 6 September 1714) was an Italian mathematician, noted for criticizing some conclusions of [[Guido Grandi]], a student of [[Giovanni Alfonso Borelli]] who was influenced by [[Galileo]] and [[Aristotle]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Edoardo Benvenuto|title=An introduction to the history of structural mechanics: statics and resistance of solids|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bi0_AQAAIAAJ|accessdate=14 August 2011|year=1991|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-387-96227-6|pages=241 ff}}</ref>
'''Alessandro Marchetti''' (17 March 1633 – 6 September 1714) was an Italian mathematician, noted for criticizing some conclusions of [[Guido Grandi]], a student of [[Giovanni Alfonso Borelli]] who was influenced by [[Galileo]] and [[Aristotle]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Edoardo Benvenuto|title=An introduction to the history of structural mechanics: statics and resistance of solids|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bi0_AQAAIAAJ|accessdate=14 August 2011|year=1991|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-387-96227-6|pages=241 ff}}</ref>


In 1669 Marchetti completed the first known Italian vernacular translation of [[Lucretius]]' Epicurean epic poem ''[[De Rerum Natura]]''. He was denied permission to publish his translation, entitled ''Della Natura delle Cose'', but it circulated widely in manuscript form before its first printing in 1717.
In 1668 Marchetti completed the first known Italian vernacular translation of [[Lucretius]]' Epicurean epic poem ''[[De Rerum Natura]]''. He was denied permission to publish his translation, entitled ''Della natura delle cose'', but it circulated widely in manuscript form before its first printing in 1717.<ref>{{DBI|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alessandro-marchetti_(Dizionario-Biografico)/|title=MARCHETTI, Alessandro|first=Cesare|last=Preti|volume=69}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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==Works==
==Works==
[[File:Marchetti, Alessandro – De resistentia solidorum, 1669 – BEIC 859692.jpg|thumb|''De resistentia solidorum'', 1669]]
[[File:Marchetti, Alessandro – De resistentia solidorum, 1669 – BEIC 859692.jpg|thumb|''De resistentia solidorum'', 1669]]
* {{Cite book|title=Lettera nella quale si ricerca donde avvenga che alcune perette di vetro, rompendosi loro il gambo, tutte si stritolino|volume=|publisher=Vincenzo Vangelisti|location=Firenze|year=1667|language=it|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=859979}}
* {{Cite book|title=Lettera nella quale si ricerca donde avvenga che alcune perette di vetro, rompendosi loro il gambo, tutte si stritolino|volume=|publisher=Vincenzo Vangelisti|location=Firenze|year=1667|language=it|url=https://preserver.beic.it/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE6791729}}
* {{Cite book|title=Exercitationes mechanicae|volume=|publisher=Giovanni Ferretti|location=Pisa|year=1669|language=la|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=853007}}
* {{Cite book|title=Exercitationes mechanicae|volume=|publisher=Giovanni Ferretti|location=Pisa|year=1669|language=la|url=https://preserver.beic.it/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE6824248}}
* {{Cite book|title=De resistentia solidorum|volume=|publisher=Vincenzo Vangelisti|location=Firenze|year=1669|language=la|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=859692}}
* {{Cite book|title=De resistentia solidorum|volume=|publisher=Vincenzo Vangelisti|location=Firenze|year=1669|language=la|url=https://preserver.beic.it/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE7045937}}
* {{Cite book|title=Della natura delle comete|volume=|publisher=Carlo Zenobi|location=Firenze|year=1684|language=it|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1419029}}
* {{Cite book|title=Della natura delle comete|volume=|publisher=Carlo Zenobi|location=Firenze|year=1684|language=it|url=https://preserver.beic.it/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE7995583}}


== Literature ==
== Literature ==
* Jonathan Israel, ''Radical Enlightenment'', Oxford University Press, 2002. {{ISBN|978-0-19-925456-9}}.
* Jonathan Israel, ''Radical Enlightenment'', Oxford University Press, 2002. {{ISBN|978-0-19-925456-9}}.
* Cosmo Gordon, ''A Bibliography of Lucretius'', Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969. ASIN B000OJYRQ0.
* Cosmo Gordon, ''A Bibliography of Lucretius'', Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969. ASIN B000OJYRQ0.

== External links ==

* {{DBI |title= MARCHETTI, Alessandro |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alessandro-marchetti_(Dizionario-Biografico)|last= Preti Cesare|first= Silvia|volume= 69}}


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Alessandro Marchetti
Born(1633-03-17)17 March 1633
Pontormo, Empoli, Italy
Died6 September 1714(1714-09-06) (aged 81)
Pontormo, Empoli, Italy
NationalityItalian
Occupationmathematician
Spouse
Lucrezia de' Cancellieri
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(m. 1672)​
ChildrenAngelo Marchetti
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics

Alessandro Marchetti (17 March 1633 – 6 September 1714) was an Italian mathematician, noted for criticizing some conclusions of Guido Grandi, a student of Giovanni Alfonso Borelli who was influenced by Galileo and Aristotle.[1]

In 1668 Marchetti completed the first known Italian vernacular translation of Lucretius' Epicurean epic poem De Rerum Natura. He was denied permission to publish his translation, entitled Della natura delle cose, but it circulated widely in manuscript form before its first printing in 1717.[2]

References

  1. ^ Edoardo Benvenuto (1991). An introduction to the history of structural mechanics: statics and resistance of solids. Springer. pp. 241 ff. ISBN 978-0-387-96227-6. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
  2. ^ Preti, Cesare (2007). "MARCHETTI, Alessandro". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 69: Mangiabotti–Marconi (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.

Works

De resistentia solidorum, 1669

Literature

  • Jonathan Israel, Radical Enlightenment, Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-19-925456-9.
  • Cosmo Gordon, A Bibliography of Lucretius, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969. ASIN B000OJYRQ0.


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