Tartaglia's Quesiti et inventioni diverse, 1554
Title page of "Quesiti et inventioni diverse" with portrait of the author. Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia (1499 - December 13, 1557) was an Italian mathematician, engineer, surveyor and translator. He published many books, including the first Italian translations of Archimedes and Euclid, and an acclaimed compilation of mathematics. He was the first to apply mathematics to the investigation of the paths of cannonballs, known as ballistics, in his "Nova Scientia" ("A New Science"); his work was later partially validated and partially superseded by Galileo's studies on falling bodies. In "Quesiti et inventioni diverse" he explores this application of mathematics further, for example in explaining the force of impace of projectiles generated by machines like the lever. He also published a treatise on retrieving sunken ships.
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