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100	1		_aBoschiero, Luciano. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aExperiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany _h[electronic resource] : _bThe History of the Accademia del Cimento / _cby Luciano Boschiero.
264		1	_aDordrecht : _bSpringer Netherlands, _c2007.
300			_aXII, 252 p. _bonline resource.
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490	1		_aAustralasian Studies In History And Philosophy Of, _x0929-6425 ; _v21
505	0		_aGalileo 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.
520			_aThe 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 of a programme that simply accumulated 'matters of fact', free from theoretical arguments and speculations. However, while the Cimento, led by Tuscany's Prince Leopoldo de'Medici, created a persuasive experimental rhetoric, in actuality the academicians continued to construct experiments and interpret their results on the basis of their theoretical aims and their broader interests in natural philosophy. This analysis begins by examining the use of experiments, mathematics, and natural philosophy in seventeenth-century Italy. Once these topics are clearly defined, it becomes easier to understand the intellectual interests and motivations of each of the Cimento's members. Case studies regarding the Cimento's work on air-pressure, the vacuum, the freezing process, and the properties and effects of heat and cold, reveal the group's natural philosophical skills, commitments, and agendas. Meanwhile, in an attempt to avoid religious pressure and to maintain an uncontroversial reputation for the academy, Leopoldo censored the academicians from publicly expressing their views on a number of issues. The purpose of this work is to counter 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.
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650	2	4	_aHISTORY AND PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS.
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