domenica 17 febbraio 2008
The MacTutor History of Mathematics
Archivio di storia della matematica della School of Mathematics and Statistics della University of St Andrews - Scotland
Antikythera
More than a hundred years ago an extraordinary mechanism was found by sponge divers at the bottom of the sea near the island of Antikythera. It astonished the whole international community of experts on the ancient world. Was it an astrolabe? Was in an orrery or an astronomical clock? Or something else? For decades, scientific investigation failed to yield much light and relied more on imagination than the facts. However research over the last half century has begun to reveal its secrets. It dates from around the 1st century B.C. and is the most sophisticated mechanism known from the ancient world. Nothing as complex is known for the next thousand years. The Antikythera Mechanism is now understood to be dedicated to astronomical phenomena and operates as a complex mechanical "computer" which tracks the cycles of the Solar System.
http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/project/general/the-project.html
riprova
The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC, until the end of the pre-Christian era. We estimate the number of these documents currently kept in public and private collections to exceed 500,000 exemplars, of which now nearly 225,000 have been catalogued in electronic form by the CDLI. learn more
sabato 27 ottobre 2007
Slideshare
Slides presentate al Congresso "Le scienze matematiche nell'età moderna" Paris, Institut Henri Poincaré, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 25-26-27 ottobre 2007
Iscriviti a:
Post (Atom)