Alessandro Marchetti (mathematician)
Alessandro Marchetti | |
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| Born | 17 March 1633 Pontormo, Empoli, Italy |
| Died | 6 September 1714 (aged 81) Pontormo, Empoli, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation | mathematician |
| Spouse |
Lucrezia de' Cancellieri
(m. 1672) |
| Children | Angelo Marchetti |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- Lettera nella quale si ricerca donde avvenga che alcune perette di vetro, rompendosi loro il gambo, tutte si stritolino (in Italian). Firenze: Vincenzo Vangelisti. 1667.
- Exercitationes mechanicae (in Latin). Pisa: Giovanni Ferretti. 1669.
- De resistentia solidorum (in Latin). Firenze: Vincenzo Vangelisti. 1669.
- Della natura delle comete (in Italian). Firenze: Carlo Zenobi. 1684.
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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