Martin Frank
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Ph.D.
Residence: May 1–August 1, 2013
Profile
- Martin Frank is a researcher in the history of Renaissance mathematics and mechanics.
His research is particularly focused on investigations into the work of important Renaissance scholars such as Federico Commandino, Guidobaldo dal Monte and Giovanni Battista Benedetti.
Moreover, research into their scientific environments and the "minor" figures constituting them (such as Ettore Ausonio, Francesco and Felice Paciotti, Giulio da Thiene, etc.) permits to carve out interesting features of the cultural and scientific background in which they worked and contributes, thus, to a better contextualisation of these Cinquecento mathematicians' scientific activity.
Current work:
Edition of Guidobaldo dal Monte's correspondences and of his manuscript MeditatiunculaeSelected publications
M. Frank. "Mathematics, Technics and Courtly Life in the Late Renaissance Urbino. " Archive of History of Exact Sciences LXVII 3 (2013)
M. Frank. "A Proposal for a New Dating of Guidobaldo’s "Meditatiunculae". " Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche XXXIII/2 (2013)
M. Frank. Fortezze, trattati e strumenti scientifici: ricerche sull'ambiente tecnico-scientifico della corte sabauda nel tardo Rinascimento. Torino: Fondazione Filippo Burzio, 2013.
M. Frank. "Dating Federico Commandino’s Teaching Activity in Urbino. " Galilaeana (2013)
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