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apocryphal galilean writings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2005

antonio favaro
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the historians of science have only recently learned of the existence of a sixth volume of the grandly conceived work of the abbé raffaello caverni entitled storia del metodo sperimentale in italia. five volumes had already been published between 1891 and 1898. the sixth volume was published, one might say, in an almost furtive way. in fact, the first notice of it was given in a journal by aldo mieli just a few months ago. among materials he is collecting under the heading, “for a biography of the italian historians of science,” in addition to other things already said about caverni in a previous issue, mieli has published the following “information received from g. vacca”: “the printing of the sixth volume of the history of the experimental method in italy dealing with the history of hydraulics had been started but was interrupted by the author's death. about 450 pages have been printed, the greater part of the copies of the loose sheets have been lost.”

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appendix: a forgotten controversy:
Information
Science in Context , Volume 14 , Issue s1 , June 2001 , pp. 363 - 369
Copyright
2001 cambridge university press

Footnotes

translator's note: this second version of favaro's article was published in atti e memorie della reale accademia di scienze, lettere ed arti in padova (1919–20), 17–30. reprinted in favaro 1992a, 141–54. the modernized and standardized list of references can be found in a bibliographical section at the end of the appendix. in this second version, favaro noted that the article was first published in bollettino di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche, 19 (1917), 33–43. he added the following comment: “as i did in other cases, i republish this article in the present collection because of its importance for my work on galileo, adding to the first version the result of subsequent investigations.”