Article ID: CBB000850028

O vácuo de Pascal versus o ether de Noël: uma controvérsia experimental? (2006)

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Saito, Fumikazu (Author)


Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
Volume: 1
Pages: 50--57


Publication Date: 2006
Edition Details: Translated title: [The vacuum of Pascal versus the ether of Noël: an experimental controversy?]
Language: Portuguese

The difficult issue concerning the existence of vaccum in nature gained momentum from the 17th century onwards due to the diffusion of Torricelli's barometric test in France. Inspired on it, Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) performed his owned experiences, published as Expériences nouvelles touchant le vide (1647). These new experiences elicited a hot debate between him and the Jesuit Étienne Noël (1581-1659). Immediately after publication, Noël sent two letters to Pascal and published a short writing, Le plein du vide, where he contested the conclusions stated by Pascal and defended the idea that nature is plena. This paper aims to show that these different attitudes, adopted by Noël and Pascal, relate to two divergent theoretical conceptions, implied in two different notions concerning experience.

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Authors & Contributors
Le Noxaïc, Armand
Ariew, Roger
Borisov, V. P.
Fickers, Andreas
Frercks, Jan
Giannetto, Enrico
Journals
Perspectives on Science
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Almagest
British Journal for the History of Science
Publishers
Science History Publications
Springer
Concepts
Physics
Vacuum; emptiness; nothingness
Experiments and experimentation
Philosophy
Controversies and disputes
Science and religion
People
Pascal, Blaise
Boyle, Robert
Descartes, René
Koyré, Alexandre
Newton, Isaac
Torricelli, Evangelista
Time Periods
17th century
19th century
Places
France
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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