Article ID: CBB182980248

L’opuscolo di Spallanzani sugli “animali chiusi nell’aria” (1776). Una “storia sbagliata” di regole ed eccezioni (2017)

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Spallanzani’s essay “sugli animali chiusi nell’aria” (1776) was published just a year before Lavoisier exposed his revolutionary work on animal respiration. As a consequence of this thematic overlapping, Spallanzani became entangled in events which he could not fully understand. He collected ‘wrong stories’ from which, however, he was able to separate “accidental” from “persistent” phenomena. Thanks to the literary instrument provided by the monographic essay, his storytelling veiled and unveiled resistant exceptions and exceptional cases. Spallanzani’s writing skills provided neither a general, nor a ‘right’ rule of respiration. Rather, they furnished coherent theories framing a well-delimited range of data. Therefore, his essay forces historians to cope with an ‘error’ that, in itself, is unquestionably intriguing: and even more so, considering that this error was produced – as it was the case – in full compliance with the ‘good method’ and the ‘good writing’ of the best eighteenth-century experimentalism.

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Authors & Contributors
Monti, Maria Teresa
Rossi, Paolo Aldo
Bernardi, Walter
Prestes, Maria Elice Brzezinski
Terrall, Mary
Steigerwald, Joan
Concepts
Biology
Experiments and experimentation
Experimental method
Chemistry
Animal experimentation
Respiration
Time Periods
18th century
20th century
17th century
Early modern
21st century
19th century
Places
Italy
France
Europe
Sicily
Russia
Institutions
Università di Pavia
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome)
Accademia nazionale di scienze, lettere e arti (Italy)
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