Ostilio Ricci

Ostilio Ricci (* 1540 in Fermo, † in Firenze 1603) was an Italian mathematician of the early modern period. He was a teacher of Galileo Galilei and yard- mathematician Francesco I de ' Medici.

Writings

  • Problemi di Geometria Practica: L' uso dell'Archimetro

Swell

  • TB Settle: " Ostilio Ricci, a bridge in between Alberti and Galileo", in XIIe Congrès International d' Histoire des Sciences, Actes, Paris, 1971, III B, pp. 121-126.
  • F. Vinci: Ostilio Ricci da Fermo, Maestro di Galileo Galilei, Fermo, 1929.
  • Albert Presas i Puig: Ostilio Ricci, the Practical Education and the Canon of Technical Knowledge at the Beginning of the Italian Renaissance, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 2002.
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