Book of Various Mathematical and Physical Speculations
Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum & physicarum liber
Latin
1585
219 pages
First Translation
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Extensive searches across multiple academic and library catalogs (including OpenAlex, Internet Archive, and general catalog searches) yielded no evidence of a complete or partial English translation of Giovanni Battista Benedetti's 'Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum et physicarum liber' (1585). While individual letters or specific short treatises by Benedetti have occasionally been translated in scholarly articles (such as his letters on music), the work as a whole remains untranslated in English.
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About This Book
mechanicsmathematicsnatural philosophyphilosophyastronomyarchitecture
Giovanni Battista Benedetti strips away the cobwebs of ancient mathematical dogma to rebuild physics and arithmetic from the ground up. This collection of speculations proves that geometric intuition provides a more rigorous foundation for science than blind reliance on classical authorities.
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