Search Results - "Physis (Firenze)"

FRANCO RASETTI, A ASCIENTIS ACROSS PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY by Boccaletti, Dino

“…The transition from a "craftsman-like" to an "industrial-like" organization of the scientific research marked the scientific biography of the Italian physicist…”
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Foundational questions in the beginning of clinical psychology by Ceccarelli, Glauco

“…This work proposes an initial survey on the origins of American clinical psychology between the nineteenth and twentieth century, against a backdrop of…”
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Darwin in the Republic of Letters by Bertani, Stefano

“…For those accustomed to thinking that the modern cultural dimension arose under the banner of a clash between the so-called "two cultures," the figure of…”
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The method of "rational medicine" of Giovanni Battista Morgagni by Zampieri, Fabio

“…Giovanni Battista Morgagni is considered the father of pathological anatomy. His contribution can be contextualized within the sphere of the extraordinary…”
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The ideas that are seen. Form and perception in Goethe and Paolo Bozzi by Giacomoni, Paola

“…This article presents a comparative analysis of Paolo Bozzi's experimental phenomenology and of J.W. Goethe's morphological method, which is considered one of…”
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Anatomists, philosophers, "head hunters": Gall, Kant and the early days of phrenology by Duichin, Marco

“…In 1798, the German physician and anatomist Franz Joseph Gall, after his transfer to Vienna, published a pioneer paper that gave rise to the Schädellehre…”
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Stories in history. Notes in the margins of a book on the history of Italian psychology by Ceccarelli, Glauco

“…The first part of the article deals with a recent book on the history of Italian psychology, analyzing especially the historiographical choices made by the…”
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Galileo and centrifugal force by Vilain, Christiane

“…This work intends to focus on Galileo's study of what is now called "centrifugal force," within the framework of the Second Day of his Dialogo written in 1632,…”
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Raffaello Caverni and the Society for the Progress of the Sciences: an independent priest criticized by the lay scientists by Boccaletti, Dino

“…Raffaello Caverni (1837-1900), a Catholic priest, was a truly lay and anti-establishment intellectual in his opinions both on Darwin and on Galileo. He opposed…”
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The enigma of the "punished suicide": an anatomical preparation of Lodovico Brunetti winner of the gold medal at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1867 by Zampieri, Fabio, Zanatta, Alberto, Bonati, Maurizio Rippa

“…This article reconstructs the figure of Lodovico Brunetti, the first Chair of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Padua, and Director of the homonymous…”
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Work, momentum and fatigue in the work of Daniel Bernoulli: toward the optimization of biological fact by Fonteneau, Yannick, Viard, Jérôme

“…The concept of mechanical work is inherited from the concepts of potentia absoluta and men's work, both implemented in the section IX of Daniel Bernoulli's…”
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Four centuries later: how to close the Galileo case? by Segre, Michael

“…The "Galileo case" is still open: John Paul II's 1979 initiative to "recognize wrongs from whatever side they come" was carried out in an unsatisfactory…”
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Extraordinary news of a curious apothecary. Monsters and wonders in the Florentine diary of Luca Landucci by Ciseri, Lorenzo Montemagno

“…This article offers a new reading of the well-known diary kept by the Florentine apothecary Luca Landucci between 1450 and 1516, examining its accounts of…”
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Joseph John Thomson's models of matter and radiation in the early 1890s by Bordoni, Stefano

“…In the late nineteenth century, Joseph John Thomson moved away from Maxwell's specific theoretical models of matter and energy, even though he continued to…”
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The production of optical glass in France and the experiences of Ruggiero Boscovich for the production of lead glass (Part One) by Proverbio, Edoardo

“…The experiences that in 1758 led John Dollond to create the first achromatic telescope highlighted the serious difficulties related to the production of lenses…”
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Philosophy and mathematics: interactions by Rashed, Roshdi

“…From Plato to the beginnings of the last century, mathematics provided philosophers with methods of exposition, procedures of demonstration, and instruments of…”
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Transformations of geometrical objects in middle Egyptian mathematical texts by Miatello, Luca

“…This paper analyzes the algorithmic structure of geometrical problems in Egyptian papyri of the first half of the second millennium B.C. Processes of…”
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Memory of Federico Di Trocchio by Cappelletti, Vincenzo, Cimino, Guido

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The measurement of time and its instruments: the program of experimental psychology of Gabriele Buccola by Degni, Silvia

“…Gabriele Buccola is remembered as the first Italian psychologist to have developed a rigorous program of laboratory research. The careful examination of the…”
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Psychoanalysis is a precious thread, fragile but precious": Vittorio Benussi and the Inventory of psychoanalysis (1926-1927) by Trizzino, Antonino

“…The lessons of psychoanalysis held by Vittorio Benussi in Padua between 1926 and 1927 reveal the other aspect of his interests: that which regards…”
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