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

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              IV.
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              <s>Non aveva ancora Galileo dato l'ultima mano alla costituzione
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              del suo nuovo Regno, che si leva dalla montagnosa Bretagna un
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              vento impetuoso a ferire, abbattere e disperdere tutto ciò che egli
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              incontra per via. </s>
              <s>Quel vento è l'orgoglio filosofico di Renato Car­
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              tesio, il quale proclamando ad alta voce che tutto il mondo era fino
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              a quel tempo vissuto nelle tenebre e nell'errore, viene ad abbat­
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              tere il tristo e buio tugurio dell'ignoranza per sostituire ad esso,
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              di sua propria mano ricostruito, il nuovo edifizio della scienza. </s>
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              <s>È questo dunque un conquistatore ben assai più ardito: Galileo
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              rispettò i placiti dell'antica filosofia, e fecesi discepolo di Platone,
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              seguace di Archimede; il suo Regno è circoscritto, e non esce fuori
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              della cerchia dei fatti naturali. </s>
              <s>Il Cartesio invece protesta di non
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              riconoscere tradizioni di nessuna maniera; la sua impresa è quella
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              di voler da sè solo restaurar la scienza universale. </s>
              <s>Se egli avesse
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              confidato in segreto a qualche suo savio amico questa ardita inten­
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              zione, ei ne lo avrebbe senza dubbio distolto, dicendogli non poter
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              esser quella altro che una follia. </s>
              <s>Ma pure è mirabile che uscito il
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              Cartesio in pubblico, a divisare gli ordini e i modi di quella sua
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              titanica impresa, tutt'altro ch'esser tenuto folle, ebbe plauso dalla
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              turba maravigliata e titolo di sapiente. </s>
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              <s>Il libro, in cui si divisano quegli ordini e quei modi, uscì in
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              pubblico nel 1637 con un titolo, che si tradusse in quello di
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              Spe­
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              cimina Fhilosophiae
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              o altrimenti
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              Dissertatio de methodo recte re­
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              gendae rationis.
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              La bellezza del patrio lìnguaggio, in cui prima uscì
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              fuori alla luce il libro, fu una delle principali cagioni per cui ri­
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              masero così dolcemente allettati, e quasi si direbbe sedotti i lettori. </s>
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              Altra poi di quelle cagioni fu senza dubbio un aura conciliatrice
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              di pace nella prima, e un approvato sentimento di verità nell'altre
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              due regole provvisorie da seguirsi, intanto che, distrutta la vecchia,
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              non si sia rifatta dall'Autore e ricostruita la nuova scienza morale. </s>
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              <s>L'efficacia poi di queste regole sull'animo del lettore, e quel­
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              l'aura conciliatrice di pace che si diceva, si rendono manifeste dal
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              considerar che la bellezza e la verità di quelle stesse regole son che
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              tolgono ai divisamenti dell'Autore il carattere della follia. </s>
              <s>Perciò </s>
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