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The Weight of Things Quantification of Matter and the Exchange of Technical and Learned Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

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Specific Gravities - Textual Sources

A collection of important sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century texts on specific gravities.

Niccolò Tartaglia (Quesiti, et inventioni diverse, 1546)
Niccolò Tartaglia (Iordani Opusculum de ponderositate, 1565)
Galileo Galilei - Tavola delle proporzioni delle gravita in specie de´i metalli e delle gioie pesate in aria, et in aqua
Jean Bodin ( Universae naturae theatrum, 1596)
Marino Ghetaldi (Promotus Archimedis, 1603)
Juan Bautista Villalpando (In Ezechielem explanationes, 1604)
Thomas Harriot (Letter to Johannes Kepler, Dec. 1606)
Michiel Coignet (La Geometrie reduite en une facile et briefue pratique, 1626)
Francis Bacon (Historia Densi & Rari, 1658)

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