Ostilio Ricci

Ostilio Ricci
Ostilio Ricci (1540–1603)
Born	1540 Fermo
Died	1603 (aged 62–63) Florence
Residence	Italy
Nationality	Italian
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
Alma mater	Universita' di Brescia
Academic advisors	Niccolò Tartaglia
Notable students	Galileo Galilei Lodovico Cardi

Ostilio Ricci (1540–1603) was an Italian mathematician.

Biography

He was a university professor in Florence at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, founded in 1560 by Giorgio Vasari. Ricci is also known for being Galileo Galilei's teacher.

Ricci was Court Mathematician to the Grand Duke Francesco in Florence, in 1580, when Galileo attended his lectures in Pisa.

Galileo was enrolled at the University of Pisa, by his father Vincenzio, in order to study medicine. Instead, Galilei more interested in mathematics, after meeting Ostilio Ricci, a former student of Niccolò Tartaglia. Ricci considered the mathematics not to be a distinct science, but a practical tool for problems in mechanics and engineering. Ostilio Ricci is systematically cited in the various biographies of Galileo Galilei.

Works by Ricci

• Ostilio Ricci, Problemi di Geometria Pratica: L'uso dell'Archimetro, Manuscript, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, II – 57

References

• T. B. Settle, "Ostilio Ricci, a bridge between Alberti and Galileo", in XIIe Congrès International d'Histoire des Science, Actes, Paris, 1971, III B, pp. 121–126.

• F. Vinci, Ostilio Ricci da Fermo, Maestro di Galileo Galilei, Fermo, 1929.

• James Reston, Jr., Galileo: A Life, Harper Collins, 1994.

• Albert Presas i Puig, Ostilio Ricci, the Practical Education and the Canon of Technical Knowledge at the Beginning of the Italian Renaissance, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, 2002.

External links

• L. Ricci, art. Ostilio Ricci, 1Ricci.com (2006).
• Ricci biography
• Ricci's math genealogy
• Ricci's AI genealogy
• Ricci's neurotree genealogy
• Galileo & Ricci
• Ricci's influence on Galileo

Persondata
Name	Ricci, Ostilio
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1540
Place of birth	Fermo
Date of death	1603
Place of death	Florence