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

Rusu, Doina-Cristina (Author)
Jalobeanu, Dana (Author)

Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Volume: 62
Issue: 3
Pages: 381-392

URI: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1600-0498.12341

DOI: 10.1111/1600-0498.12341

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Formulas, recipes, etc... Empiricism Experiments and experimentation Experimental method 17th century 16th century Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam Della Porta, Giovan Battista

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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