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| Autore principale: | Favino, Federica.
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| Titolo: | In urbe mathematicus : Torricelli a Roma / Federica Favino. |
| Abstract: | The years Torricelli spent in Rome his childhood and those of his mathematical apprenticeship are especially lacking in documents. Nevertheless, these years are crucial in his scientific biography, because it was in Rome that he became "Galilean in profession and faith" thanks to the mastership of father Benedetto Castelli. The paper tries to make sense of the few fragments we have, by reading them in context. The social status of Italian mathematicians, the ways of apprenticeship a poor man and a lay scholar in mathematics could apply in early modern Italy, the intellectual ethos the "scientists" still had to borrow from institutions that had little to do with science, can explain both Torricelli's professional choices and the silence surrounding his Roman years. As an hypothesis, the essay suggests that the social status Torricelli acquired when he became a lecturer of mathematics at the Accademia del Disegno in Florence, could provide further reasons to explain why he did not attempt to translate Galileo's geometrical devices into natural philosophy, and why he seems always disengaged from the philosophical meanings of his barometric experience. |
| Visionato in: | IMSS |
| In: |  Letture galileiane (2008 : Faenza) Torricelli e la nuova scienza. p. 39-70 |
| Discipline: | Matematica--Persone. |
| Persone: | Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647. Castelli, Benedetto, 1577/8-1643. |
| Luoghi: | Roma. |
| Keyword: | Keywords--Scuola galileiana. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XVII. |
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