Niccolò Guicciardini

Niccolò Guicciardini Corsi Salviati is an Italian historian of mathematics. He is a professor at the University of Milan, and is known for his studies on the works of Isaac Newton.
Guicciardini obtained his Ph.D. from Middlesex Polytechnic 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.Reading the Principia: the debate on Newton's mathematical methods for natural philosophy from 1687 to 1736, Cambridge University Press, 1999.Isaac Newton on mathematical certainty and method, MIT Press, 2009.