FRANCESCO MAUROLICO AND THE RENAISSANCE OF MATHEMATICS

Editing Scientific Texts and the
Challenge of New Technologies

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

MESSINA, OCTOBER 16--20 2002

PROMOTED BY
 
 

Università di MESSINA -- Università di PISA

Università di PALERMO

SOCIETA' MESSINESE DI STORIA PATRIA

ISTITUTO E MUSEO DI STORIA DELLA SCIENZA, FIRENZE
DOMUS GALILAEANA, PISA
MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FUR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE, BERLIN
KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, JAPAN
GNSAGA -- ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ALTA MATEMATICA

in collaboration with:

COMUNE DI MESSINA
PROVINCIA DI MESSINA
REGIONE SICILIA













                      SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Ottavio Besomi  (Cattedra di lingua e letteratura italiana ETH, Zurich)
Paolo d'Alessandro (Università di Chieti)
Paolo Freguglia (Università di L'Aquila -- Domus Galilaeana)
Antonio Carlo Garibaldi (Università di Genova)
Enrico Giusti (Università di Firenze -- Il Giardino di Archimede)
Carlo Maccagni (Università di Genova)
Pier Daniele Napolitani (Università di Pisa)
Rosario Moscheo (Università di Messina -- Società messinese di Storia patria)
Ken Saito (Osaka Prefecture University, Giappone)
Jean-Pierre Sutto (Revel, Francia)
 

                            ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Veronica Gavagna (gavagna@mail.dm.unipi.it)
Rosario Moscheo (Rosario.Moscheo@unime.it)
Pier Daniele Napolitani (napolita@dm.unipi.it)
 

For more details about the meeting and participation, please email to:

         maurolico@dm.unipi.it
 
 

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Francesco Maurolico (1494--1575) was one of the most important
mathematicians of the Renaissance. His scientific works cover the
various fields of the mathematical learning of his times:
astronomy, gnomonics, mechanics, trigonometry, optics --- and,
above all, the revival of classical Greek mathematics. His extant
writings (over 5,000 folios) contain methods and results of great
ingenuity and originality and deeply influenced the birth of
modern mathematics and science. Nevertheless, most of his works
remained unpublished during the author's life and were printed,
only partially,  many decades after Maurolico's death.

In 1998 the "Maurolico Project", aimed to the realization of an
electronic critical edition of his mathematical writings, was
launched. The results achieved by the Maurolico Project until now
are available on the web site

        ``Francisci Maurolyci Opera Matematica''

       http://www.maurolico.unipi.it

The goal of this Symposium is to present and discuss with the
international scientific community the results achieved by the
"Maurolico Project". Thus, this meeting has been organized on a
historical, philological and computational level.

       * Maurolico's works: the analysis of his writings,
        * the reconstruction of his scientific  and intellectual career;
        * the influence of his works on the mathematical
        * community in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries.
 

        * The challenge of the critical edition of scientific
        * writings in the age of computers and Internet.
 

        * The use of computational tools and languages for
        * solving  philological and interpretative problems.
 

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