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 () was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author. Newton was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment that followed ...

. Guicciardini obtained his Ph.D. from Middlesex Polytechnic in 1987 under the supervision of

Ivor Grattan-Guinness Ivor Owen Grattan-Guinness (23 June 1941 – 12 December 2014) was a historian of mathematics and logic. Life Grattan-Guinness was born in Bakewell, England; his father was a mathematics teacher and educational administrator. He gained his ...

. 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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