The Academy del Chimento or the Academy of Experience ( Lat. Accademia del Cimento ; Italian. Accademia dell'esperimento ) - in Florence, a scientific society (Italian “academy”), founded in 1657 at the expense of Leopold de Medici and used , for the first time in Europe, Galileo's experimental methods in natural science.
The academy was originally located in the Florentine Palazzo Pitti , next door to the Grand Duke Ferdinando II , who participated in the creation of some instruments, then was transferred to the Castellani Palace, now the Florentine Museum of the History of Science or the Galileo Museum ( Italian: Museo Galileo ).
History
The Academy was founded in 1657 in Florence by Leopold Medici , brother of the Grand Duke Ferdinando II . Among its first members were the students of Galileo physicist Vincenzo Viviani , universal scientist Giovanni Alfonso Borelli , mathematician and physicist Evangelista Torricelli , the first doctor of the Grand Duke Nils Stensen and others. [one]
The Academy published in Italian in 1667 a description of many experiments on air pressure , water elasticity, heat , light , sound , body movement, and so on. Mushenbruck translated these notes into Latin and enriched them with his notes. [one]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Academies // Encyclopedic Dictionary compiled by Russian scientists and writers. - SPb. , 1861.
Literature
- Academies // Encyclopedic Dictionary compiled by Russian scientists and writers. - SPb. , 1861.
- Academies // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Scientific societies // Big Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.