Hydrostatics on the fray: Tartaglia, Cardano and the recovering of sunken ships

Author:

ECHEVERRÍA VIRGINIA IOMMI

Abstract

AbstractIn his 1551 Travagliata invenzione, the Italian mathematician Niccolò Tartaglia described a device for raising sunken ships. Despite his claim of originality, his contemporary Girolamo Cardano had described a similar method in his famous work De subtilitate, which was published a year before. A comparison between these methods reveals the uniqueness of Tartaglia's approach, for he combines an explicit defence of the horror vacui principle with an implicit negation of rarefaction. In this article I show the complexities of this conception and stress the importance of keeping the personal argument between both authors in mind when interpreting their descriptions of wreck-salvage operations.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science,History

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