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Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany The History of the Accademia del Cimento /
The Accademia del Cimento (1657-1667) was the first institution in Europe purporting to use an experimental method in its scientific inquiries. According to some recent accounts, the Cimento belonged to a new culture of knowledge making that abandoned the practice of constructing theories in favour...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2007. |
| Colección: | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Galileo And Beyond
- 350 Years of coming to grips with the experimental activities of Galileo and his followers
- Vincenzio Viviani (1622-1703): Galileo's last disciple
- Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-1679)
- What it meant to be a Cimento academician
- The Accademia Del Cimento: 1657-1662
- Experiments concerning air pressure and the void and a look at the Accademia's internal workings
- The artificial freezing process of liquids, and the properties and effects of heat and cold
- The Accademia Del Cimento: 1662-1667
- The Cimento's publication process and presentational techniques: formulating a policy of self-censorship
- The Saturn problem and the path of comets: an analysis of the academicians' theoretical and observational Astronomy.