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Historical and Methodological Details on the De Motu Gravium Naturaliter Descendentium in Torricelli’s Opera Gometrica (1644)
In this paper, we deal with Torricelli’s principle in mechanics according to which two heavy bodies linked together cannot move by themselves unless...
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Torricelli’s Proof of Galileo’s Assumption on the Velocity Acquired at the End of a Free Fall
Galileo’sGalileo’s assumption Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze attenenti alla meccanica e i movimenti locali...
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De Motu: The History of the Understanding of Motion, from Aristotle to Newton
This excursus reviews the conceptual basis of the classical theory of motion from Aristotle in Hellenic science, through the medieval theory of...
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Species delimitation of tea plants (Camellia sect. Thea) based on super-barcodes
BackgroundThe era of high throughput sequencing offers new paths to identifying species boundaries that are complementary to traditional...
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Cultivation-independent genomes greatly expand taxonomic-profiling capabilities of mOTUs across various environments
BackgroundTaxonomic profiling is a fundamental task in microbiome research that aims to detect and quantify the relative abundance of microorganisms...
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Ciliate diversity in rodrigo de freitas lagoon (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) from an integrative standpoint
The Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon is a highly eutrophic lacustrine system and has one of the longest histories of exploration and anthropic alteration in...
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Reading Aristotle’s De sensu et sensato: Chrysostomus Javelli’s Discussion of Extramission and Intromission Theories of Vision
In this chapter, I will examine the place of the commentaries on Aristotle’s De sensu et sensato in Chrysostomus Javelli’s comprehensive exegetical...
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Buonamici, Francesco
Francesco Buonamici was professor of Philosophy at the University of Pisa for almost 40 years. His most important work is the treatise On Motion (De...
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Borri, Girolamo
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pisa when Galileo was a student there, Borri was a fierce advocate of Aristotelianism. He considered...
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Temporal Origins Essentialism and Gappy Existence in Marsilius of Inghen’s Quaestiones super libros De generatione et corruptione
In his commentary on Aristotle’s De generatione et corruptione Marsilius of Inghen defends the view—unusual in the Middle Ages—that there is no such...
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Javelli, Pomponazzi and the Immortality of the Soul: From the Solutiones (1519) to the Tractatus de animae humanae indeficientia (1536)
In the controversy raised in 1516 by Pietro Pomponazzi’s Tractatus de immortalitate animae, the Thomistic theologian Chrysostomus Javelli, regent of...
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Circa tertium librum De anima quaeritur primo utrum intellectus humanus sit virtus passiva ab intelligibili
Arguitur quod non, quia omne quod patiturmovetur, licet non e converso, ut habetur primo De generatione. Et Şomne quod movetur est divisibile,Ť ut...
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Newtonianism and the Physics of Du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique
Much scholarship has claimed the physics of Emilie du Châtelet’s treatise, Institutions de physique, is Newtonian. I argue against that idea. To do...
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William Harvey und seine Entdeckung des Blutkreislaufs anno 1628 – die Einzelheiten
Harvey’s discovery of the circulatory system is one of the “milestones of medicine”. Even ancient physicians such as Aristotle, Hippocrates or Galen...
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Galvani, Luigi: De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari
Zur Vorgeschichte der 1791 publizierten Abhandlung: Im Jahre 1780 beobachtete Luigi Galvani rein zufällig, wie ein Froschschenkel auf seinem...
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François de Foix-Candale
This chapter presents François de Foix de Candale’s treatment of genetic definitions in his commentary on the Elements, as well as the connections...
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Harvey, William
The natural philosopher William Harvey was born in Folkestone on April 1, 1578. He studied at the Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge, and from...
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