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Girolamo Mercuriale
Medicina e cultura nell'Europa del Cinquecento - Atti del Convegno «Girolamo Mercuriale e lo spazio scientifico e culturale del Cinquecento» (Forlì, 8-11 novembre 2006)
Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606) was a humanist and doctor with a European reputation. In this volume experts from around the world reconstruct his career within its historical and cultural context, and assess his scientific output, which ranged from...



Pour comprendre le XIXe
Histoire et philosophie des sciences à la fin du siècle
The relationships between science and philosophy in the second half of the 19th century, and in particular epistemology of science in this extraordinary period in the history of thought, are areas deserving greater research. For this reason the...



Bruno J. Strasser
La fabrique d’une nouvelle science
La biologie moléculaire a l’âge atomique (1945-1964)
This book explores the creation of a new science, molecular biology, in the intellectual, social and cultural contexts of the Atomic age. It follows the trajectories of several physicists who began to study life, invented new instruments and social...



Maria Teresa Monti
Spallanzani e le rigenerazioni animali
L’inchiesta, la comunicazione, la rete
Spallanzani’s studies on regenerations are seen for the first time in the light of his twenty-five recently published «laboratory notebooks». The reconstruction of his investigations, started in 1765 and never finished, clarifies why the planned...



Stéphane Garcia
Élie Diodati et Galilée
Naissance d’un réseau scientifique dans l’Europe du XVIIe siècle
This work describes the career of Elie Diodati (1576-1661), ‘avocat au parlement’ who corresponded with the greatest intellectual personalities of his time. Believing in a science that should finally free itself of its Aristotelian yoke, he saw in...