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Guidobaldo Marquis del Monte has long been identified as a key figure in the history of the mathematical disciplines in the Renaissance. The contributions brought together in this volume examine all the key aspects of the Marquis del Monte s activities, ranging from mechanics and the science of perspective to architecture and geometry. Some of the essays provide intellectual analyses of Guidobaldo's works, including their significance and reception, others document his activities in the design of mathematical instruments, in civil and military architecture, and in his professional travels and contacts with Galileo. Many of the contributions rely on archival research shedding new light on his activities. As a result, Guidobaldo appears in a new light and as a key figure not only in the Duchy of Urbino but also on the Italian and European stage. --- The series 'Proceedings' of the Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge presents the results of scientific meetings on current issues and supports further cooperation on these issues via an electronic platform. The volumes are available both as print-on-demand books and as open-access publications on the Internet. The material is freely accessible online at www.edition-open-access.de, supplemented by additional information and interactive features. The original scholarly work presented in these volumes is published under the responsibility of designated members of the Scientific Board and their appointed reviewers.
List of contents
Introduction: Searching for Order in Theory and Practice (Domenico Bertoloni Meli)
I. Mechanics in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
"Argumentandi modus huius scientiae maxime proprius." Guidobaldo's Mechanics and the Question of Mathematical Principles (Maarten Van Dyck)
Guidobaldo del Monte and Renaissance Mechanics (Walter Roy Laird)
Guidobaldo Del Monte's Controversy with Giovan Battista Benedetti on Positional Heaviness (Jürgen Renn and Pietro Daniel Omodeo)
Guidobaldo del Monte: Galileo's Patron, Mentor and Friend (William R. Shea)
Guidobaldo, Galileo, and the History of Mechanics (Domenico Bertoloni Meli)
II. Mathematics and Theory of Perspective
Guidobaldo e la teoria delle proporzioni (Enrico Giusti)
Guidobaldo: The Father of the Mathematical Theory of Perspective (Kirsti Andersen)
Guidobaldo del Monte e Piero della Francesca: raffronti prospettici (Stefano Marconi)
La nuova teoria prospettica nei Perspectivae libri sex: il primato dell'architettura e della pittura nell'opera di Guidobaldo del Monte e in particolare nel De scenis (Livia Tiriticco)
Gli strumenti scientifici di Guidobaldo del Monte (Enrico Gamba e Roberto Mantovani)
III. Architecture and Mechanics
"...zoticamente non intendendo le Mechaniche". La scientiaaedificandi ai tempi di Guidobaldo del Monte (Antonio Becchi)
Guidobaldo del Monte: architetto di palazzo Gradari a Pesaro (Grazia Calegari)
Guidobaldo del Monte nel Granducato di Toscana e la scuola roveresca di architettura militare (Francesco Menchetti)
IV. Guidobaldo and the Political-Cultural Context
Court Mathematicians, Rosicrucians, and Engineering Experts: The German Translation of Guidobaldo del Monte's Mechanicorum liber by Daniel Mögling (1629) (Marcus Popplow)
Guidobaldo del Monte e i nuovi corpi celesti (Alessandro Giostra)
Guidobaldo del Monte e Francesco Maria II della Rovere duca di Urbino (Gianluca Montinaro)
I del Monte feudatari di Monte Baroccio (Riccardo Paolo Uguccioni)
Books by Guidobaldo del Monte (Antonio Becchi, Domenico Bertoloni Meli and Enrico Gamba)
Bibliography on Guidobaldo del Monte (Enrico Gamba and Martin Frank)
Manuscripts and Digital Library (Antonio Becchi)
