# Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia

> He turned cannonballs into geometry. Tartaglia mapped the arc of projectiles in 1537 — the first mathematician to treat ballistics as a problem you could solve on paper, decades before Galileo walked the field.

*Italian mathematician (1499–1557)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/niccolo-fontana-tartaglia

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Italy
- **Born:** 1499
- **Died:** 1557-12-13
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in the Republic of Venice around 1500, Niccolò Fontana worked as an engineer, surveyor, and bookkeeper — trades that sharpened his eye for practical problems. In 1537 he published Nova Scientia, applying mathematics to the flight of cannonballs and founding the study of ballistics; Galileo would later test and refine parts of the work. He produced the first Italian translations of Archimedes and Euclid, wrote an acclaimed mathematics compilation, and published a treatise on raising sunken ships. He died in Venice on 13 December 1557, having spent a career turning war and salvage into equations.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 54.0 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.6 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 23.3 / 100
- **Now attention:** 3.2 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Scientists, #Academic, #Mathematics, #Early Modern Era

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