Overview
- Broadly relevant to studies of Scientific Revolution, not just the Accademia del Cimento
- Provides fresh insight into early modern scientific academies, especially in Italy
- Clear and straightforward style of writing, avoiding convoluted prose common in such works
- Challenges dominant historiographies of post-Galilean Italian science
- Introduces Anglophones largely unfamiliar with Continental science history, to Italian studies
Part of the book series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (AUST, volume 21)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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The Accademia Del Cimento: 1657–1662
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The Accademia Del Cimento: 1662–1667
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany
Book Subtitle: The History of the Accademia del Cimento
Authors: Luciano Boschiero
Series Title: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6246-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6245-2Published: 06 September 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7581-9Published: 22 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6246-9Published: 04 September 2007
Series ISSN: 1871-7381
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1958
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 251
Topics: History of Science, History of Mathematical Sciences, History, general, History of Philosophy, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics