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

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              primo s'investigano le cause fisiche e meccaniche de'moti; nel secondo si
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              danno le regole per le osservazioni. </s>
              <s>Una delle principali cose che occorre
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              a notare è la conferma e dimostrazione fisica matematica delle Orbite ellit­
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              tiche, dal Montanari ammessa per induzione, e dalla prima Scuola galileiana
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              affatto negata, ed è altresì più notabile che le variazioni e le irregolarità os­
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              servate nei moti le attribuisca l'Autore ai vari modi degl'impulsi radiosi
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              del Sole, o a qualche cosa equivalente insomma all'attrazion neutoniana,
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              ch'egli rende ostensibile con ingegnose esperienze fondate sopra le proprietà
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              del Magnete. </s>
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              <s>Rispetto alle osservazioni, quanto fossero arguti gli avvedimenti del Bo­
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              relli basterebbe a provarlo il cap. </s>
              <s>III del Libro II, dove, in trattar delle va­
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              rietà dell'Ecclissi, dimostra sperimentalmente, con Canocchiali via via di
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              maggiore ingrandimento, come nemmen co'più grandi e più squisiti Stru­
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              menti si arriva a togliere affatto l'irradiazione, cosa che pur sarebbe così
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              necessaria ad avvisar nell'Ecclissi il tempo de'precisi contatti. </s>
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              <s>Altre dottrine di quest'Opera insigne occorrerà di notarle fra poco, e
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              intanto è da saper che a'colloqui vespertini, che si tenevano in Firenze alla
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              presenza del principe Leopoldo, uno de'primi e principali convenutivi era
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              il Viviani. </s>
              <s>A dissertar di Giove e de'Medicei era per lui come un rinfre­
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              scare i più verdi e più gloriosi allori del suo adorato Maestro, nel quale ef­
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              fetto un acuto stimolo di rivalità, oltre al nobile amor della scienza, non gli
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              permetteva, a confronto del Borelli, di mostrarsi inoperoso. </s>
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              <s>Ei non sa però dilungarsi da'metodi praticati da Galileo, e perciò, co­
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              noscendo bene quanto importasse, nelle operazioni micrometriche del suo
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              Maestro, il sapere l'ingrandimento del Canocchiale, ne immaginò, per mi­
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              surarlo più facilmente, questi tre modi: “ Io. </s>
              <s>Sia AB (fig. </s>
              <s>86) una tavoletta
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              tinta di nero, in mezzo di cui sia una striscia bianca uniforme di larghezza,
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              e in mezzo di questa un sottile ago fermato a piombo, sul quale si possano
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              <s>Figura 86.
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              infilare dei cerchi di cartone tinti
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              neri, i diametri de'quali abbiano
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              nota proporzione con la larghezza
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              della striscia. </s>
              <s>E quivi, infilato or
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              un ed ora un altro de'cerchi, si
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              osservi con l'Occhiale posto a di­
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              rimpetto all'asse qual di loro ap­
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              parirà all'occhio accomodato all'Oc­
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              chiale uguale alla larghezza della
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              fascia vista con l'altro occhio li­
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              bero; che di qui si averà la proporzione dell'ingrandimento. II o. </s>
              <s>Ovvero,
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              prese le distanze de'fochi dell'obiettivo e della lente oculare, quanto quella
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              si troverà maggiore di questa, di tanto l'Occhiale accrescerà ogni larghezza
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              o altezza di oggetto. </s>
              <s>IIIo. </s>
              <s>Ovvero, fatti due cerchi uguali e neri, ed uno os­
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              servato con l'Occhiale nella distanza che si vuole, in campo bianco, l'altro
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              accostisi e discostisi finchè l'occhio libero lo giudichi, nel medesimo campo, </s>
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