Caverni, Raffaello, Storia del metodo sperimentale in Italia, 1891-1900

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                <foreign lang="en">1.
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                Validity of the work and scope of this edition.
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                2.
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                Biographical
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                note.
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                3.
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                Early writings.
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                4.
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                Studies
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                Sulla filosofia delle scienze
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                naturali
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                (On the philosophy of natural science) and their banning by the
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                Congregation of the Holy Office.
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                5.
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                Popular works.
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                6.
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                The great
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                Storia. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">7.
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                Caverni's last years.
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                8.
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                Odyssey of the manuscripts.
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                9.
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                Conclusion.
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                1. VALIDITY OF THE WORK AND SCOPE OF THIS EDITION
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                <foreign lang="en">The first edition of the work presented here in photographic reprint was of
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                modest proportions. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">The author was a clergyman of the Florentine diocese, a
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                student of philosophy and the history of science, and when he died in early
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                1900 the work was suspended halfway through the sixth volume even though
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                a practically completed manuscript did exist. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">Nor was it ever reprinted,
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                although our literature is anything but rich in this field, especially in that
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                turn-of-the-century period. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">From a distance of seventy years one might well
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                ask whether Caverni's work is still valid or if it is not by now completely out­
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                dated, to be exhumed only as a document of a bygone phase of the history of
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                science. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">Recently, however, a voice of great authority has assured us that the work
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                is still of cultural importance. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">Eugenio Garin, in a lecture on
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                La cultura
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                fiorentina nell'età di Leonardo
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                (Florentine culture in the age of Leonardo)
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                includes a penetrating and original opinion of Caverni, referring to
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                La storia
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                del metodo sperimentale in Italia
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                as “a work wrongly forgotten.”
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                For the
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                oblivion in which it has remained for so long, almost an unjust and mistaken
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                ostracism, has encouraged the persistence of the legend that it is an essentially
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                anti-Galilean work. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">Actually, the critical perspective and the dispassionate
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                (even if, naturally, not infallible) examination of the sources that characterize
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                this work are clearly in contrast with the emphasis and tone of the writings of
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                the Italian Galileans who, from Viviani to Favaro, have felt they had to serve
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                unsolicited and superfluous, as the extreme apologists or defenders of Galileo
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                The latest representatives of this tradition, whom we cannot hesitate to cal
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