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The birth of the Application School of Bridges and Roads (1806 - 1815), Naples, Italy. Universities and scientific disciplines in Italy and Europe.

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Universities and scientific disciplines in Italy and Europe. The birth of the Application School of Bridges and Roads (1806 - 1815), Naples , Italy . Universities and scientific disciplines in the rest of Italy.  In 1725, in Turin, the king Vittorio Amedeo II (1°) had promulgated the statutes of the University that established some criteria of theoretical training for engineers civilians. The latters had to take an approval test with one of the University's mathematics professors. In 1739, the Military Academy was set up in Turin, dedicated to the study of fortifications and artillery. In 1772, of the successive Constitutions, established the courses of Mathematics and Construction which were to be followed by the royal engineers; these courses were divided into five years, in the first of which the algebraic analysis had to be taught, in the second the conic sections, in the third the analysis of the infinitesimal, in the fourth the theory of the motion of the sol