And it ended up in Prisyan’s house for the engineer. Carlo Vigano signed the donation agreement signed on April 10, 1973 with the Rector of the University, Giuseppe Lazzati, which had already begun in 1971. From that day on, work began to give birth to a very rich library of History of sciencea collection of about 10,000 volumes of scholarly material, in the widest sense of the expression, divided more or less between ancient and modern collections (including manuscripts, incunabula, sixteenth-century books and editions from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries).
It includes works and first editions by the most prominent scholars of history, from Archimedes, Euclid and Apollonius of Berga to Niccolò Copernico, Galileo Galilei, Giovanni Kepler and Isaac Newton, passing by the Brescians Niccolò Tartaglia, Benedetto Castelli and Francesco Lana di. third parties. Among these we find the first edition of striker Written by Galileo Galilei, published 400 years ago and will be discussed at the Symposium “An unparalleled testament to exemplary generosity”l Wednesday, May 3.
“No work better than Assayer helps us understand Galileo’s concept of science,” he explains Frank JudgeProfessor of the history of science. Born out of a dispute with the Jesuit Orazio Grassi over the nature of the comets that appeared in the autumn sky of 1618, the book goes far beyond the subject of scientific controversy: it is by all accounts a “Discourse on Method”, which expresses the full awareness of the revolution of new knowledge, launched by Galileo himself was associated with the extraordinary telescopic discoveries of 1610, when he redesigned the world’s geography and expanded the boundaries of the universe. In Saggiatore Galileo expounds his famous doctrine according to which nature is endowed with an order and harmony of the geometric type, and must therefore be read like a book. Not a book of those generated by the imagination of poets, but a book written in geometrical language, which can only be understood by those who are able to “know the letters in which it is written” (triangles, circles, etc.). Not only that: Saggiatore is a masterpiece of writing, with sparkling prose that represents one of the highest pinnacles of seventeenth-century Italian literature, in which the richness of the linguistic record is always based on the scientific rigor of the arguments. All elements which, not surprisingly, were highly appreciated by authors such as Leopardi and Italo Calvino ».
during the symposium Diego Cancreni collaborator on historical collections, Through a documentary reconstruction, it will tell the story of the path that brought the Viganò Library to the university, in the period between the presentation of the architect’s will (August 1971) and the actual donation with its subsequent arrival at its destination (April and late autumn 1973).
Still associated with Galileo would be an intervention Michael CamerotaAnd Professor of the History of Science at the University of Cagliari, who will focus on the activity of the prof. Antonio Favaro, the greatest Galileo expert of the last century, in connection with his national edition of the Galilean Works, an imposing scholarly and publishing enterprise completed in the years between 1890 and 1909.
Simon Gavinelli She will present the results of her continued research on the “Fondo Autographs” of the Vigano Library, which had already led her to publish the volume of the scholar’s writings. Signature Fund of the “Carlo Vigan” History of Science Library of the Catholic University of Brescia (Rome – Bristol, “Irma” by Brechtschneider, 2021). The new documents, kept in unordered volumes, include signatures by important men of science between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including Pietro Caldagne, Baldassare Boncompagni Ludovisi, and Angelo Secchi. Marco Zanini Instead, he will speak of some of the theories about women’s education that circulated in Brescia, and throughout the Venetian Republic, in the middle of the eighteenth century, paying particular attention to the scientific training of Breccia women Giulia Betelli, Camilla Solar d’Este, and Ludovica. Wafa Diamond Medal.
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