Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany: The History of the Accademia del Cimento (Repost)
Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany: The History of the Accademia del Cimento By Boschiero, Luciano Boschiero
2007 | 249 Pages | ISBN: 1402062451 | PDF | 4 MB
2007 | 249 Pages | ISBN: 1402062451 | PDF | 4 MB
This work counters historiographies that search for the origins of modern science within the experimental practices of Europe's first scientific institutions, such as the Cimento. It proposes that we should look beyond the experimental rhetoric found in published works, to find that the Cimento academicians were participants in a culture of natural philosophical theorising that existed throughout Europe.