See also:

• TARTAGLIA, or TARTALEA, NICCOLO (c. 1506—1559)

TARTAGLIA, or TARTALEA, NICCOLO (c. 1506—1559)  , See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian mathematician, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BRESCIA
• BRESCIA (anc. Brixia)

Brescia . His childhood was passed in dire poverty . During the See also:

• SACK

sack of Brescia in 1512, he was horribly mutilated by some See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French soldiers . From these injuries he slowly recovered, but he See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long continued to stammer in his speech, whence the See also:

• NICKNAME

nickname, adopted by himself, of " See also:

• TARTAGLIA, or TARTALEA, NICCOLO (c. 1506—1559)

Tartaglia." See also:

• SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

Save for the barest rudiments of See also:

• READING

reading and See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing, he tells us that he had no See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master; yet we find him at See also:

• VERONA
• VERONA, CONGRESS OF

Verona in 1521 an esteemed teacher of See also:

• MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics . In 1534 he went to See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice . For Tartaglia's See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery of the See also:

• SOLUTION (from Lat. solvere, to loosen, dissolve)

solution of cubic equations, and his contests with See also:

• ANTONIO
• ANTONIO (1429—1498)
• ANTONIO, NICOLAS (1617-1684)

Antonio See also:

• MARIE

Marie Floridas, see See also:

• ALGEBRA (from the Arab. al-jebr wa'l-mugabala, transposition and removal [of terms of an equation], the name of a treatise by Mahommed ben Musa al-Khwarizmi)

ALGEBRA (See also:

• HISTORY

History) . In 1548 Tartaglia accepted a situation as See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• EUCLID
• EUCLID [EucLEIDES]

Euclid at Brescia, but returned to Venice at the end of eighteen months . He died at Venice in 1559 . Tartaglia's first printed See also:

• WORK

work, entitled Nuova scienzia (Venice, 1537), dealt with the theory and practice of gunnery . He found the See also:

• ELEVATION

elevation giving the greatest range to be 45°, but failed to demonstrate the correctness of his See also:

• INTUITION (from Lat. intueri, to look at)

intuition . Indeed, he never shook off the erroneous ideas of his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time regarding the paths of projectiles, further than to see that no See also:

• PART

part of them could be a straight See also:

• LINE

line . He nevertheless inaugurated the scientific treatment of the subject .

His Quesiti et invenzioni diverse, a collection of the author's replies to questions addressed to him by persons of the most varied conditions, was published in 1546, with a See also:

• DEDICATION (Lat. dedicatio, from dedicare, to proclaim, to announce)

dedication to See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry VIII. of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . Problems in See also:

• ARTILLERY (the O. Fr. artiller, to equip with engines of war, probably comes from Late Lat. articulum, dim. of ars, art, cf. " engine " from ingenium, or of artus, joint)

artillery occupy two out of nine books; the See also:

• SIXTH

sixth treats of fortification; the ninth gives several examples of the solution of cubic equations . He published in 1551 Regola generale per sollevare ogni affondata See also:

• NAVE

nave, intitolata la Travagliata Invenzione (an allusion to his See also:

• PERSONAL

personal troubles at Brescia), setting forth a method for raising sunken See also:

• SHIPS

ships, and describing the diving-See also:

• BELL
• BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
• BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
• BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
• BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
• BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
• BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
• BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
• BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
• BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
• BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
• BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)

bell, then little known in western See also:

• EUROPE

Europe . He pursued the subject in Ragionamenti sopra la Travagliata Invenzione (May 1551) . His largest work,Trattato generale di numeri e misure, is a comprehensive mathematical See also:

• TREATISE

treatise, including See also:

• ARITHMETIC (Gr. apeOµ7run7, sc. TEXVn, the art of counting, from (ipLBµos, number)

arithmetic, See also:

• GEOMETRY

geometry, See also:

• MENSURATION (Lat. mensura, a measure)

mensuration, and algebra as far as quadratic equations Venice, 1556, 156o) . He published the first Italian See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of Euclid (1543), and the earliest version from the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek of some of the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• WORKS

works of See also:

• ARCHIMEDES (c. 287–212 B.C.)
• ARCHIMEDES, SCREW OF

Archimedes (1543) . These included the See also:

• TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract De insidentibus See also:

• AQUAE (Lat. for "waters'')

aquae, of which his Latin now holds the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of the lost Greek See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text . Tartaglia claimed the invention of the See also:

• GUNNER, or MASTER GUNNER

gunner's quadrant . Tartaglia's own See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• LIFE

life is contained in his Quesiti, See also:

• LIB

lib. vi. p . 74 . See also Buoncompagni, Intorno ad un testamento inedito di N . Tartaglia (See also:

• MILAN
• MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

Milan, 1881); See also:

• ROSSI, LUIGI DE
• ROSSI, PELLEGRINO LUIGI EDOARDO, COUNT (1787-1848)

Rossi, Elogi di Bresciana illustri, p .

386 . Tartaglia's writings on gunnery were translated into See also:

• ENGLISH

English by Lucar in 1588, and into French by Rieffel in 1845 .