Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany

Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9781402062469
ISBN-13 : 140206246X
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Download or read book Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany written by Luciano Boschiero and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work counters 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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