Article ID: CBB000931305

Giochi d'acqua e d'aria tra magia e meccanica: ancora su Della Porta e Galileo (2009)

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New consideration is given to the general membership of Cesi's Lyncean Academy, in which Giambattista della Porta played a major role as Galileo did. Both della Porta and Galileo developed a program for mechanics: della Porta under Heros' aegis, Galileo by recovering Archimedean tradition. "The scope of mechanics in the sixteenth century and early seventeenth centuries also reflects larger tendencies within the Scientific Revolution" (Laird). In the late sixteenth century "the beliefs and practices of magic were still very much alive" (Keller), as the popularity of Heros' Pneumatika` testifies. This paper considers della Porta's dependence on Hero vs. Galileo's genuine Archimedism.

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Authors & Contributors
Guerrini, Luigi
Trabucco, Oreste
Galluzzi, Paolo
Ottaviani, Alessandro
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome)
Guardo, Marco
Journals
Galilæana: Journal of Galilean Studies
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Studi dellaportiani
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
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Brill
Scienze e lettere
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome)
Bardi
Brepols Publishers
Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane
Concepts
Societies; institutions; academies
Magic
Natural history
Science and politics
Science and religion
Natural philosophy
People
Cesi, Federico
Galilei, Galileo
Della Porta, Giovan Battista
Bruno, Giordano
Agricola, Georgius
Cardano, Girolamo
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
15th century
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Italy
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Mexico
Florence (Italy)
Naples (Italy)
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Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome)
Institut de France, Paris
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