L’opuscolo di Spallanzani sugli “animali chiusi nell’aria” (1776). Una “storia sbagliata” di regole ed eccezioni (2017)
Monti, Maria Teresa (Author)
Mefisto: Rivista di medicina, filosofia, storia
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 83-104
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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