Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia
Italian mathematician (1499–1557)
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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.
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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 equa…
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