Silvestro Gherardi
Silvestro Gherardi (born December 17, 1802 in Lugo (Emilia-Romagna) , Ravenna , † July 29, 1879 in Florence ) was an Italian physicist and mathematician.
Gherardi studied mathematics and physics at the University of Bologna with Francesco Orioli with the Laurea degree in 1822 and taught there as a professor from 1827 to 1849 mechanics, hydrology and later physics. He was also politically active in uprisings against the Papal States in 1831 and 1848. In 1849 he was Minister of Education in the short-lived Roman Republic and after its end had to give up his professorship in Bologna. From 1857 to 1861 he was professor of physics at the University of Turin and after the Italian unification he became professor emeritus in Bologna in 1862.
As a physicist, he experimented mainly with electricity and magnetism and optics. As a science historian, he dealt with Alessandro Volta and Luigi Galvani and turned in Bologna to the history of mathematics at the University of Bologna and published a book about it, which mainly deals with the section from the Middle Ages ( Cecco d'Ascoli ) to the Renaissance and from Maximilian Curtze was translated into German in 1871. It gained particular importance through the publication of the documents of the dispute between Niccolò Tartaglia and Lodovico Ferrari (professor in Bologna) about the solution of the cubic equation and the work of Scipione del Ferro (professor in Bologna). Excerpts from the dispute had already been published by Giovanni Fantuzzi in 1794 (Notes degli scrittore Bolognesi) and they were published in full by Enrico Giordani in 1878 .
He also published important works on Galileo Galilei and his trial, the files of which he was able to see in the archives of the Inquisition in the Vatican when he was Minister of Education of the Roman Republic in 1849. The Accademia dei Lincei he belonged since 1849 as a corresponding member.
Fonts
- Di alcuni materiali per la storia della Facoltà Matematica nell'antica Università di Bologna, 1846
- German translation: Some materials on the history of the mathematical faculty of the old University of Bologna, Berlin: Calvari 1871, Archives
literature
- Giorgio Dragoni: Gherardi, Silvestro. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 53: Gelati – Ghisalberti. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1999.
- Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (eds.): Writing the history of mathematics , Birkhäuser 2002, p. 435f
Web links
- Gherardi, Silvestro. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
Remarks
- ↑ Annuario dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 2011, p. 447
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gherardi, Silvestro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian mathematician and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lugo (Emilia-Romagna) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1879 |
| Place of death | Florence |