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

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              turati sotto altro sole in terra straniera. </s>
              <s>Per men vergogna, e quasi
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              che alla mendicità si volesse attribuire qualche parte del merito,
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              il pietoso ufficio fu commesso a due uomini, i quali partecipavano
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              delle due patrie: Niccolò Fabrizi di Peiresc ed Elia Diodati. </s>
              <s>Nati
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              ambedue di stirpe Toscana, dalla Toscana trapiantarono in Francia
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              la scienza, come i loro avi vi avevano già trapiantata la famiglia,
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              e per loro mezzo principalmente risuonò in fin là il nome di Ga­
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              lileo, e vi si diffusero le dottrine. </s>
              <s>Ismaele Bullialdo ne illustrava
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              le dottrine astronomiche e Pier Gassendo le meccaniche. </s>
              <s>La fisica
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              sperimentale, anch'essa dal Cartesio antivacuista resa impotente,
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              fu introdotta in Francia da Marino Mersenno, l'insetto volante, che
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              portò d'Italia sull'ali il polline fecondatore. </s>
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              <s>Qual più piena conquista, qual più larga vittoria si poteva ri­
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              promettere il nostro grande Italiano? </s>
              <s>Quell'orgoglioso Bretone, che,
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              per libidine di regnar solo, intendeva non tanto di trucidare i fra­
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              telli, ma disperdere per fino ogni memoria degli avi, rimase tru­
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              cidato anch'esso, non dalla punta, ma dall'ombra della spada di
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              Galileo, il cui Regno unico dura, e i discendenti del quale son come
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              terribile oste ordinata in battaglia contro l'errore. </s>
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              <s>Sarebbe ora il tempo per noi di passare in rivista quei com­
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              battenti sotto un unica insegna, se non ci attraessero a sè gli sguardi
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              due ombre solitarie, che avvolte nel pallio filosofale procedono con
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              regal maestà indipendenti. </s>
              <s>Come mai, in mezzo alla strage otto­
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              manna de'due fieri conquistatori, essi soli son rimasti superstiti,
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              quasi fossero giudicati i soli meritevoli di compartecipare alle glorie
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              del Regno? </s>
              <s>Sono essi Guglielmo Gilbert, e Guglielmo Harvey, sui
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              quali due, per conoscerli meglio, convien tener alquanto fisso lo
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              sguardo. </s>
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              <s>Fruga senza dubbio la nostra curiosità il veder che Galileo,
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              unico fra i contemporanei, accoglie il Gilbert e l'esalta quasi alla
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              dignità dei Filosofi antichi. </s>
              <s>Nè con minore curiosità pure si osserva
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              che il Cartesio, nel Gilbert e nell'Harvey, come nelle due sole im­
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              mobili torri, abbia fiaccato il vento desolatore della sua superbia. </s>
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              Ciò vuol dire esser grandi davvero, se come tali furon sentiti e
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              temuti da quei due che volevano sovraneggiare su tutti; ond'ei non
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              è fuor di proposito l'investigar qui brevemente, di quella grandezza
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              che esce così fuori dell'ordinario, la ragione e i meriti. </s>
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              <s>Nè in ordine a ciò è da lasciar di notare per prima cosa che
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              i due grandi Inglesi si distinguono per due qualità diverse; l'uno
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              dedito principalmente all'esperienza, l'altro alla speculazione. </s>
              <s>Il </s>
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