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

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                3. EARLY WRITINGS
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                <foreign lang="en">In 1872 Caverni was ready with his first publications. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">There are the curious
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                “Ricreazioni scientifiche” (scientific pastimes), a column at once instructive
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                and amusing where science is handled in a conversational and easily com­
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                prehensible manner, while the part reserved for the history of science (for
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                example, to science in Dante) is characterized by profound research and a
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                rigorous exposition that is not always easy and never elementary. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">These articles,
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                which appeared periodically, were first printed in the magazine
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                La Scuola
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                that
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                had just been founded by Augusto Alfani (another Florentine who knew how
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                to reconcile faith and science and, even more daring, was among those who
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                hoped to see closer ties between Church and State). They were continued in the
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                periodical
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                Letture di famiglia
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                and collected under the same title in a volume
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                published in 1882 which Giovannozzi in 1910 declared was already almost im­
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                possible to find. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">I myself have never seen it even mentioned in a catalogue. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">Another series of articles appeared in the same magazines in almost the same
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                period, but was concluded more rapidly. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">This series was entitled “Consigli
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                sopra allo studio delle lettere a un giovanetto” (advice to a young man on the
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                study of literature) and was published in volume form in 1879 with the title
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                Dell'arte dello scrivere
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                (on the art of writing). (Unfortunately, the copy at the
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                Nazionale of Florence was a victim of the flood.) Together with these, Caverni
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                also published studies of Dante's physics which were never reprinted alone. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">In
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                1874 his first book appeared:
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                Problemi naturali di Galileo e della sua scuola
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                (natural problems of Galileo and his school), published by Sansoni and, like his
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                other works, not easily found today. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">His
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                Dizionarietto di voci e modi dell'uso
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                popolare toscano nella Divina Commedia
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                (little Dictionary of Tuscan words and
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                phrases in the Divine Comedy), published in 1877, was however destined to
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                enjoy a certain popularity. </foreign>
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                4. STUDIES
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                Sulla filosofia delle scienze naturali
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                (ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF
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                NATURAL SCIENCE) AND THEIR BANNING BY THE CONGREGATION OF THE
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                HOLY OFFICE
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                <foreign lang="en">In the meantime, the
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                Rivista Universale
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                (universal magazine) began to appear
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                in Florence, soon changing its letterhead to
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                Rassegna Nazionale
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                (national
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                review). The Treccani terms it the magazine of conservative Catholics, but
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                Giovannozzi is more detailed and precise, recalling it as the periodical that was
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                the “champion, for many years the only one, of the struggle for faith and
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                nationality indissolubly united,” when during the long papacy of Leon XIII
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                (1878-1903) such a program was considered almost nonsensical and little less
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                than heretical. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">Caverni immediately took advantage of this arena and in 1875
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                and 1876 published a series of epistemological studies which Giovannozzi
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                properly calls “his most beautiful work.” The original title was
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                Sulla filosofia
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