Strength of Materials

Università di Roma La Sapienza

Full Professor

Email: [email protected]

Research fields

Non Linear Dynamics

History of Science

Publications (Selected)

1. 2025. Danilo Capecchi, Giulia Capecchi. Joseph Sauveur and his Time: Music and Mathematicians. Decline of the Greek Paradigm of Music. Springer, Dordrecht, to appear
2. 2024. D. Capecchi. Leonhard Euler between mathematics and natural philosophy: an introduction to natural science Anleitung zur Naturlehre. In Siraman B (ed) Handbook of the mathematics of the arts and sciences. Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 269-322.
3. 2024. Paolo Bussotti, Danilo Capecchi, Giuseppe Ruta. On the origins of Hamilton’s principle(s). Encyclopedia 4, pp. 1454-1471
4. 2023. The principle of inertia in the history of classical mechanics. Foundations of Science  29(4):1029-1070
5. 2022. Danilo Capecchi, Giuseppe Ruta. Mechanics and mathematics in ancient Greece. Encyclopedia 2 (10):140-150.
6. 2022. Danilo Capecchi, Giuseppe Ruta. Mechanics and natural philosophy in history. Encyclopedia 2(3), 1333-1343
7. 2022. Danilo Capecchi. Development of the concept of space. Encyclopedia 2(3), 1528-1544
8. 2022. Danilo Capecchi, Giuseppe Ruta. Mechanics and mathematics in ancient Greece. Encyclopedia 2 (10):140-150.
9. 2022. Danilo Capecchi, Giuseppe Ruta. Mechanics and natural philosophy in history. Encyclopedia 2(3), 1333-1343
10. 2022. Danilo Capecchi. Development of the concept of space. Encyclopedia 2(3), 1528-1544
11. 2022. Danilo Capecchi, Giulia Capecchi. Between acoustics and music. Two letters of Giovanni Battista Benedetti to Cipriano de Rore.XLII Congresso Naz. di Storia della Fisica e dell’Astronomia, Perugia, pp. 231-238
12. 2022. Danilo Capecchi, Giulia Capecchi. Music in Holland: Consonances according to Simon Stevin. XLIII Congresso Naz. di Storia della Fisica e dell’Astronomia, Padova, pp. 91-98.
13. 2022. Danilo Capecchi. The Principle of action and reaction according to Newton. Encyclopedia 3, pp. 705-720
14. 2021. Danilo Capecchi. The foundation of classical mechanics. Encyclopedia 1(2): 482-495.
15. 2021. Epistemology and natural philosophy in the 18th century, Springer, Dordrecht
16. 2021. Claudio Bini, Danilo Capecchi, Giulia Capecchi, Guglielmo Lami. The Musical Systems by Rameau and Tartini. Creativity and Inconsistency XLI Congresso Naz. di Storia della Fisica e dell’Astronomia, Arezzo, pp. 62-67.
17. 2021. Claudio Bini, Danilo Capecchi, Giulia Capecchi, Guglielmo Lami. The Combination Tones: from Tartini to Helmholtz XLI Congresso Naz. di Storia della Fisica e dell’Astronomia, Arezzo, pp..68 -73
18. 2021. Danilo Capecchi. The foundation of classical mechanics. Encyclopedia 1(2): 482-495.
19. 2018. The path to post-Galilean epistemology, Springer, Dordrecht
20. 2017. D. Capecchi, Experimente, mathematics and principle of natural philosophy in the epistemology of Giovanni Battista Baliani. AHS 6: 78-94
21. 2016. D. Capecchi, C. Tocci, Three technical reports of R.G. Boscovich on the statics of domes, in: Further Studies in the History of Construction. Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the Construction History Society, Cambridge, 8-10 April 2016, ISBN 978-0-9928751-2-1, pp. 251-262.
22. 2016. D. Capecchi, G. Ruta, Is elastic complementary energy a purely mathematical concept. Proceeding of the II International conference on History of Engineering, pp. 55-64
23. 2016. D. Capecchi, The role of mathematicians in the development of early science. A new insight.  XXXVI Congresso Naz. di Storia della Fisica e dell’Astronomia, Napoli
24. 2015. D. Capecchi, Gabrio Piola and Mathematical Physics. In: Dell’Isola et al. (eds), The Complete works of Gabrio Piola. Vol. 1, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 788-813
25. 2015. A. Pau, D. Capecchi, F. Vestroni, Reciprocity principle for scattered fields from discontinuities in waveguides. Ultrasonics,  55:85-91
26. 2015. D. Capecchi, G. Ruta, Beltrami and mathematical physics in non-Euclidean spaces: Meccanica, 51(4): 747-762
27. 2015. D. Capecchi, Epistemology of Greek Harmonics. AHS 4:155-171
28. 2015. D. Capecchi, Epistemology of harmonics.  XXXV Congresso Naz. di Storia della Fisica e dell’Astronomia, Arezzo, pp. 127-134
29. 2015. R. Pisano, D. Capecchi, Tartaglia’s science of weights and mechanics in the sixteenth century, Springer, Cham-Dordrecht.

Books (Selected)

1. D. Capecchi, History of virtual work laws. Birckhäuser, Milano, 2012.
2. D. Capecchi, The problem of motion of bodies, Dordrecht, 2014
3. D. Capecchi, G. Ruta, Strength of materials and theory of elasticity in 19th century Italy, Springer, Dordrecht, 2014
4. R: Pisano, D. Capecchi, Tartaglia’s science of weights and mechanics in the sixteenth century Italy, Springer, Dordrecht, 2015
5. D. Capecchi, The path to post-Galilean epistemology, Springer, Dordrecht, 2017
6. D. Capecchi, Epistemology and natural philosophy in the 18th century, Springer, Dordrecht, 2021
7. D. Capecchi, G. Capecchi, Joseph Sauveur and his Time: Music and Mathematicians. Decline of the Greek Paradigm of Music, Springer, Dordrecht (to appear) 2025.

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