Article ID: CBB597860170

Giovan Battista Della Porta and Francis Bacon on the Creative Power of Experimentation (2020)

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This special issue brings to the attention of the scholarly community some of the common features and some of the subtle, but important, differences between Francis Bacon's and Giovan Battista Della Porta's ways of dealing with the reading, selecting, enacting, and recording of recipes. Focusing on questions of genre, intellectual and material context, strategies of research, and strategies of performing recipes, the four papers of this special issue address two major issues. First, they shed new light on the relationship between Della Porta's Magia naturalis and Francis Bacon's Sylva sylvarum. Second, they show that in the recording of their experimental practices, Bacon and Della Porta depart from the traditional “recipe format” and discover new avenues of experimental research.

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Authors & Contributors
Jalobeanu, Dana
Rusu, Doina-Cristina
Pastorino, Cesare
Dawes, Gregory
Kazuhiro Shibata
Spink, Aaron
Concepts
Experiments and experimentation
Experimental method
Natural philosophy
Formulas, recipes, etc...
Empiricism
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
Places
England
Europe
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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