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

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                scarcely brilliant from an epistemological point of view, blamed Raffaello
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                Caverni as the sole individual responsible for certain reservations and limita­
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                tions formulated at the beginning of the century, especially abroad, concerning
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                the validity and originality of Galileo's work. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">They evidently did not realize
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                that one of the major causes of this truly anti-Galilean reaction lay, instead,
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                principally in their panegyrics and hagiographical essays. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">The validity of
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                Caverni's writings today lies exactly in his having sensed that while in the past
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                crediting Galileo indiscriminately with everything worthwhile accomplished in
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                Italy from the end of the sixteenth century to the second half of the seventeenth
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                may have increased esteem for and diffusion of his works and thought, with
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                modern historians it could seriously compromise, as indeed has happened, his
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                authentic merits, in spite of their greatness. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">It has been said and repeated by
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                his critics that Caverni has drastically stripped the laurels wreathing the fore­
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                head of the great Tuscan scientist. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">They have not understood that he has only
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                tried, instead, without false piety, to free the votive monument, erected to the
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                man with the best of intentions, of all its tinsel and gingerbread, that it might
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                better show its gold and gems. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">It must surely be opportune, therefore, to exhume this work. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">We might
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                question, instead, the photographic reproduction of the original edition, with
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                its numerous typographical errors and incomplete indexes, without notes for
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                clarification or cross-reference, without the verification and completion of the
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                bibliographical references and, above all, without the necessary indication of the
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                inevitable mistakes the author made in his exegesis of the sources, in which
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                task he was a real pioneer. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">In addition, perhaps it would have been possible to
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                bring to light that part of the manuscript still, unfortunately, unprinted. </foreign>
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                However, a new edition that would satisfy such a vast and ambitious program
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                implies no small amount of labor, which besides requiring a considerable amount
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                of time would be hampered by the lack of a congruous number of copies of the
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                text. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">The six volumes of this work have become a rarity: few libraries possess
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                any of them; very few have all of them—not even the Nazionale of Florencel
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                Let us consider this present undertaking then as the first step toward a new,
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                more dispassionate study of the work and toward a broader diffusion of it, so
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                that we may have, in the near future, that new, corrected edition which per­
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                haps Caverni himself, who died at the peak of maturity, had hoped to prepare. </foreign>
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                And we need not exclude in that event a more complete rendering of the sixth
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                volume left truncated at the end of an even numbered page, right in the middle
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                of a sentence. </foreign>
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                2. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
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                <foreign lang="en">Raffaello Caverni led a life of the greatest simplicity. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">Aldo Mieli, presenting a
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                series of articles for and against the
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                Storia del metodo sperimentale
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                in one of the </foreign>
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