Niccolò Guicciardini Corsi Salviati (born 28 May 1957 in

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) is an Italian historian of mathematics. He is a professor at the

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, and is known for his studies on the works of

Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author (described in his time as a " natural philosopher"), widely recognised as one of the grea ...

. Guicciardini obtained his Ph.D. in 1987 under the supervision of Ivor Grattan-Guinness. In 2011 he was awarded the Fernando Gil International Prize for the Philosophy of Science.

Selected publications

* ''The development of Newtonian calculus in Britain, 1700-1800'', Cambridge University Press, 1989 (paperback 2003). * ''Reading the Principia: the debate on Newton's mathematical methods for natural philosophy from 1687 to 1736'', Cambridge University Press, 1999 (paperback 2003). * ''Isaac Newton on mathematical certainty and method'', MIT Press, 2009 (paperback 2011).

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