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| Autore principale: | Boschiero, Luciano.
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| Titolo: | Natural philosophy inside the mid to late seventeenth-century Tuscan court : the history of the Accademia del Cimento : a thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of doctor in philosophy / Luciano Boschiero. |
| Descrizione fisica: | VI,439 p. : ill ; 30 cm |
| Note: | Print out Tesi di dottorato, University of New South Wales, School of History and Philosophy of Science, 2003 |
| Contiene: | Indice: Abstract. Acknowledgments. Table of contents. List of figures. Introduction. Pt. 1. Galileo and beyond: 1. 350 years of coming to grips with the experimental actitivities of Galileo and his followers 2. Vincenzio Viviani (1622-1703), Galileo's last disciple 3. Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-1679) 4. What it meant to be a Cimento academician. Pt. 2. the Accademia del Cimento, 1657-1662: 5. Experiments concering air-pressure and the void and a look at the Accademia's internal workings 6. The artificial freezing process of liquids, and the properties and effects of heat and cold. Pt. 3. The Accademia del Cimento, 1662-1667: 7. The Cimento's publication process and presentational techniques formulating a policy of self-censorship 8. The Saturn problem and the path of comets, an analysis of the academicians' theoretical and observational astronomy. Conclusion. Bibliography |
| Discipline: | Scienze--Accademie e istituzioni. |
| Enti: | Accademia del Cimento (Firenze). |
| Luoghi: | Firenze. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XVII. |
| Collocazione: | Tesi 129 |
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