Teatro umanistico.

Firenze, Olschki Ed. 1970, cm.26x35, pp.274, 36 tavole bn. fuori testo, legatura editoriale intutta tela, titoli in oro al dorso.

A cura di Paolo Viti. A cura dell'Ist.Naz.di Studi sul Rinascimento. Roma, Ediz.di Storia e Letteratura 2000, 3 volumi. cm.17x24, pp.LVIII,296,343,450, 17 figg.bn.in tavv.ft. brossure. Coll.Studi e Testi del Rinascimento Europeo.

A cura di Paolo Viti. Firenze, Olschki Ed. Edizione nazionale delle opere di Angelo Poliziano - Strumenti, 1. L’Informatica ha una capacità “mentale” adeguata per aggredire e dominare la sfera della semantica? Il dominio della linguistica elettronica, esercitatosi finora nei confini del lessico e della terminologia, potrà invadere anche i terreni del significato e sostituire il cervello umano nelle aree della gnoseologia, della indicizzazione, e della documentazione? Il volume fornirà al lettore stimolanti aperture e adeguate chiavi di interpretazione per affrontare criticamente l’universo della Comunicazione scientifica. / Does informatics possess a “mental” quality that allows it to dominate the sphere of semantics? Electronic linguistics has kept until now within the domains of lexicon and terminology, but could it invade the realms of meaning and take the place of human brain in the areas of gnoseology, indexing, and documentation? This volume offers the reader stimulating openings and appropriate interpretations to let him critically deal with the universe of scientific communication.

A cura di Giuseppina Ferriello, Maurizio Gatto, Romano Gatto. Firenze, Olschki Ed. 2016, cm 17 x 24, 434 pp. con 182 figg. n.t., brossura Biblioteca di «Nuncius»,76. Testo in Inglese. The three books of Heron’s Mechanics contain the first systematic theory of the simple and compound machines in the history of science and many other remarkable matters about theoretical and practical mechanics, including three interesting unknown theories by Archimedes. This treatise began to circulate among Western researchers through an Arabic manuscript discovered by Camille Carra de Vaux, who published it together with its French translation in 1893. A German critical edition by Ludwig Leo Nix (1900) and an English one by Aage Gerhardt Drachmann (1963) were then published after this edition. The new critical edition, presented here with all its sources, is the consequence of the unexpected discovery of four Persian manuscripts, all concerning the second book of this important treatise on mechanics, which opened unexplored field research and offered new perspectives, both philological and scientific, in interpreting this text. At the same time, analysis of the work has revealed passages very similar to corresponding passages of works of Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei, advancing the possibility that Italian scientists of the Renaissance may have been familiar with all or at least part of Heron’s Mechanics.

2015 Balzan Prizewinner. Firenze, Olschki Ed. 2018, cm 17 x 24, pp.92, con 40 figure nel testo a colori e 6 tavole fuori testo a colori, brossura copertina figurata a colori. The Annual Balzan Lecture,8. Testo in Inglese. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory was constructed at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. Its thousands of sensors are distributed over a cubic kilometre under the Antarctic ice. In this lecture on the IceCube project, Principal Investigator Francis Halzen explains his physicist’s view of astronomy and the relevance of cosmic neutrinos for understanding the origin of the highest energy cosmic rays, concluding with a view of what “IceCube science” holds for the future.