Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany The History of the Accademia del Cimento /

The Accademia del Cimento (1657-1667) was the first institution in Europe purporting to use an experimental method in its scientific inquiries. According to some recent accounts, the Cimento belonged to a new culture of knowledge making that abandoned the practice of constructing theories in favour...

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Main Author: Boschiero, Luciano. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edition:1st ed. 2007.
Series:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 21
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6246-9