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Something wrong?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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Niccolo Tartaglia. Line engraving after P. Galle. Wellcome V0005731
Niccolo Tartaglia. Line engraving by A. Locatelli. Wellcome V0005733
Niccolo Tartaglia. Line engraving by P. Galle, 1572. Wellcome V0005730
Niccolo Tartaglia. Line engraving, 1682, after P. Galle. Wellcome V0005732
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About this person
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.
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