Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany The History of the Accademia del Cimento /

• Main Author: Boschiero, Luciano (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Australasian Studies In History And Philosophy Of, 21
• Subjects: History.; Philosophy.; Mathematics.; Physics.; History of Science.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; History, general.; History of Philosophy.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.