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

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                plan Caverni gave of the whole work, he concludes, almost as though he thought
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                the ambitious program might remain unfinished, “But whatever may come of
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                this, what he has already done gives him the right to consider his work as the
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                greatest body of scientific history Italian literature can boast.” </foreign>
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                7. CAVERNI'S LAST YEARS
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                <foreign lang="en">For publication, Caverni completely rewrote the contest manuscript, adding,
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                amplifying, completing, and perhaps sometimes spoiling (Favaro
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                in an essay
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                of 1919 demonstrates that the most malicious and unfounded accusation
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                against Galileo, who was supposed to have had from Castelli the first news of the
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                phases of Venus, was not in the
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                Venetian manuscript
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                because it was “an
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                addition made to his work at the time of publication”). This labor must have
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                absorbed all the energy and attention to Caverni, who was evidently spurred on
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                and excited by the many disappointments of which we have spoken. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">In a
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                certain sense, it must also have concerned and galvanized all the little com­
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                munity of which he was the spiritual leader. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">I recently found a local inhabitant,
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                one Egidio Longhi of considerable age but most lucid memory, who told me,
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                “It was my grandfather Giovanni who took the manuscripts to the printer, to
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                Civelli.” And he must have made many trips and carried many papers if we
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                consider that in fewer than ten years a little under 3,500 large quarto pages,
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                dense with characters, were printed! </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">Caverni was a healthy man. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">He led the most wholesome and methodical life
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                one can imagine, with a walk every day and an excursion, always the same one,
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                in the surrounding countryside every week. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">But that intense and hurried work,
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                that prize they did not want to give him if he did not publish everything first,
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                those comments and reviews of which only the favorable ones failed to affect
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                him, must have undermined his physical resistance. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">It seems that in the winter
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                between 1899 and 1900 he neglected a case of nephritis; toward the end of
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                January he was found unconscious by the man who served as his housekeeper. </foreign>
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                He died a few days later, without either his relatives or a doctor having been
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                called. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">His death was reported by Procacci in that
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                Rassegna Nazionale
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                with
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                which Caverni had so actively collaborated.
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                I quote from his announcement,
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                omitting a few adjectives: “He died on the 30th last at 4:25 in the morning at
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                the age of 63.... The florid health he enjoyed and his robust physical con­
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                stitution had led us to hope that ... he would reach a very advanced age....
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                Although he dedicated all his time to study, he did not neglect his duties as
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                parish priest, to which he attended with untiring zeal and intelligent love. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">Not </foreign>
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