Teaching Physics during the 17th Century: Some Examples from the Works of Evangelista Torricelli

Main Author: Carolina Sparavigna, Amelia
Format: Article eJournal
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2015
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Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3348895
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  • This paper is proposing some physics problems from a book, De Motu Gravium Naturaliter Descendentium, written by Evangelista Torricelli, physicist and mathematician best known for his invention of barometer, with the aim of showing how physics was taught in the Italian universities, those of Padua and Pisa for instance, during the 17th Century.Read Complete Article at ijSciences: V4201504694 AND DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18483/ijSci.694