- Accademia del Cimento
The Accademia del Cimento (Academy of Experiment), an early scientific society, was founded in
Florence 1657 by students ofGalileo ,Evangelista Torricelli andVincenzo Viviani . The foundation of Academy was funded by Prince Leopoldo and Grand DukeFerdinando II de' Medici .Giovanni Borelli andNicolaus Steno were also members. The tenets of the society includedfn|1:
*Experiment ation (about everything, in this early period of science)
*Avoidance of speculation
*Creation of laboratory instruments
*Standards ofmeasurement
*A publication "Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell'Academia del cimento"Florence started1666 , later translated intoLatin in1731 . It became the standard laboratory manual in the1700s .While there was no formal procedure for joining the society, Francesco Redi, Lorenzo Magalotti (the Secretary), Vincenzo Viviani, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Carlo Renaldini, and others regularly attended its meetings. These were usually held in the
Palazzo Pitti . Members performed numerous experiments, mainly in the fields of thermometry, barometry, andpneumatics , using purpose-built instruments; the academy's motto, "Provando e riprovando" is intentionally ambiguous and can be translated either as "trying and trying again" or "experimenting and confirming".The academy was discontinued after ten years.
External links
* [http://www.scholarly-societies.org/history/1657ac.html Notes on the history of Accademia del Cimento from the Scholarly Societies Project, University of Waterloo Libraries] -- includes information about the Academy's publications.
Notes
fnb|1 pp. 17-18,
Leonard C. Bruno 1989 , "TheLandmark s ofScience ".First edition s from the collections of theLibrary of Congress . ISBN 0-8160-2137-6
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