Philosophy
Wikipedia...
Giovanni Fontana (ca. 1395 – ca. 1455) was a fifteenth-century Venetian physician and engineer who portrayed himself as a magus. He was born in Venice in the 1390s and attended the University of Padua, where he received a his degree in arts in 1418 and his degree in medicine in 1421. University records list him as "Master John, son of Michael de la Fontana". His most famous promoter at the University was the scholastic Paul of Venice. He tells us that the Doge of Venice sent him to Brescia to deliver a message to the condottiere Francesco Carmagnola. He was also employed as the municipal physician by the city of Udine.
Works...
Fontana composed treatises on a diverse array of topics. We have early works of his on water-clocks, sand-clocks and measurement. Fontana composed one of the earliest Renaissance technological treatises, Bellicorum instrumentorum liber. His machine book contains siege engines and fantastic inventions such as a magic lantern and a rocket-propelled bird, fish, and rabbit.
"Giovanni de la Fontana, engineer and magician" by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
Giovanni de la Fontana [History of Computers...]
- Ruder Boškovic And The Brera Observatory
Abstract... In the mid 18th century both theoretical and practical astronomy were cultivated in Milan by Barnabites and Jesuits. In 1763 Boscovich was appointed to the chair of mathematics of the University of Pavia in the Duchy of Milan, and the following...
- Doing Science...giovanni Battista Riccioli Does It Right
The Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli is commonly credited with performing the first precise experiments to determine the acceleration of a freely falling body. Riccioli has been discussed by historians of science, sometimes positively but...
- Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World...chersiphron & Son Worked On One--temple Of Artemis At Ephesus
An ancient engineering firm worked successfully in the construction of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The engineers used inclined planes, bags of sand and shafts of columns and architraves as wheels and axels. A short paper by Amelia...
- Riccioli...not A Cough Drop But An Astronomer
A paper on Giovanni Battista Riccioli... What can physics students learn about science from those scientists who got the answers wrong? Your students probably have encountered little science history. What they have encountered probably has portrayed...
- Giovanni Battista Riccioli And Jupiter's Cloud Belts
"The recent disappearance of one of Jupiter‟s cloud belts...has attracted significant attention from the scientific media (Phillips 2010). While this recent disappearance of a cloud belt is dramatic, changes in the clouds of Jupiter occur from time...
Philosophy
Giovanni de la Fontana...engineer and magician
A water clock.
Giovanni Fontana (ca. 1395 – ca. 1455) was a fifteenth-century Venetian physician and engineer who portrayed himself as a magus. He was born in Venice in the 1390s and attended the University of Padua, where he received a his degree in arts in 1418 and his degree in medicine in 1421. University records list him as "Master John, son of Michael de la Fontana". His most famous promoter at the University was the scholastic Paul of Venice. He tells us that the Doge of Venice sent him to Brescia to deliver a message to the condottiere Francesco Carmagnola. He was also employed as the municipal physician by the city of Udine.
Works...
Fontana composed treatises on a diverse array of topics. We have early works of his on water-clocks, sand-clocks and measurement. Fontana composed one of the earliest Renaissance technological treatises, Bellicorum instrumentorum liber. His machine book contains siege engines and fantastic inventions such as a magic lantern and a rocket-propelled bird, fish, and rabbit.
"Giovanni de la Fontana, engineer and magician" by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
Giovanni de la Fontana [History of Computers...]
- Ruder Boškovic And The Brera Observatory
Abstract... In the mid 18th century both theoretical and practical astronomy were cultivated in Milan by Barnabites and Jesuits. In 1763 Boscovich was appointed to the chair of mathematics of the University of Pavia in the Duchy of Milan, and the following...
- Doing Science...giovanni Battista Riccioli Does It Right
The Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli is commonly credited with performing the first precise experiments to determine the acceleration of a freely falling body. Riccioli has been discussed by historians of science, sometimes positively but...
- Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World...chersiphron & Son Worked On One--temple Of Artemis At Ephesus
An ancient engineering firm worked successfully in the construction of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The engineers used inclined planes, bags of sand and shafts of columns and architraves as wheels and axels. A short paper by Amelia...
- Riccioli...not A Cough Drop But An Astronomer
A paper on Giovanni Battista Riccioli... What can physics students learn about science from those scientists who got the answers wrong? Your students probably have encountered little science history. What they have encountered probably has portrayed...
- Giovanni Battista Riccioli And Jupiter's Cloud Belts
"The recent disappearance of one of Jupiter‟s cloud belts...has attracted significant attention from the scientific media (Phillips 2010). While this recent disappearance of a cloud belt is dramatic, changes in the clouds of Jupiter occur from time...