The Role of the Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century
The Role of the Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century

Author: Martha Ornstein

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2019-02-23

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780469495487

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The Role of the Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century
The Role of the Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century

Author: Martha Ornstein

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-27

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 9781330873359

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Excerpt from The Role of the Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century The History of Science may be called a stepchild in the family of the Natur - und Geschichtswissenschaften. It is too technical for the historical student, too bookish for the man of the laboratory. Yet if we agree that it is the task of the "New History" to explain what is most vital and fundamental in our civilization to-day, the historian must incorporate many a chapter of the neglected History of Science into his work. For only in this way will he be able to furnish that essential historic background for the achievements of Ehrlich and Madame Curie that he is wont to give to the projects of Lloyd George and King Ferdinand of Bulgaria. This assimilation and transference of facts from the History of Science to General History will naturally fall to those interested equally in the facts of history and the progress of science. As a member of this class, the writer has attempted to describe what seems to her the most vital element in the milieu in which modern science was born. In books dealing with the histories of the various sciences in the seventeenth century and in treatises touching upon any phase of the intellectual development of the period, a few paragraphs or pages are invariably found emphasizing, on the one hand, that science obtained its most valuable, nay indispensable, aid from the scientific societies of the day, and on the other hand, that the universities failed to supply such aid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Rôle of Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century
The Rôle of Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century

Author: Martha Ornstein Bronfenbrenner

Publisher: General Books

Published: 2012-01

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9781458935281

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Italian Scientific Societies Italy was the home of the first organized scientific academy, the Accademia del Cimento of Florence (1657- 1667). It illustrates more perfectly than any other the functions of such societies as centers of the cultivation of experiment. Here nine scientists, supplied with the means of scientific research, gave ten years of united effort to the elaboration of instruments, the acquisition of experimental skill and the determination of fundamental truths: so completely were their efforts welded together that their work was sent into the world like that of a single individual; so exhaustive were their labors that the book they published became the Laboratory Manual, so to speak, of the eighteenth century, and their own work and methods the model and inspiration I of other learned societies.1 It will, therefore, be the purpose of this chapter to describe in some detail this Accademia del Cimento, its antecedents, its members, its problems, its achievements and its failures. Among the antecedents of the Accademia del Cimento, it is customary to mention the innumerable literary societies which sprang up in Italy, especially the Accademia della Crusca of Florence. But it seems that only two earlier scientific societies in Italy (or for that matter anywhere) could claim any direct influence upon itsformation. Giambattista della Porta (1538-1615), the ingenious author of the most popular book on physical magic or magical physics at the end of the sixteenth century, the Magia Naturalis, tells in the preface of an Accademia Curiosorum hominum,1 which met at his home in Naples and helped him in performing experiments. The condition of membership was that each man had to have made some discovery or communicated a previously unknown fact in na...

The Role of the Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century (Classic Reprint)
The Role of the Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century (Classic Reprint)

Author: Martha Ornstein

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-23

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780484489041

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Excerpt from The Role of the Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century The author takes this opportunity to express her great thanks and appreciation to Prof. James Harvey Robinson who through his writings, teaching and per sonal encouragement has been her inspiration through out this work. M. 0. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.