The Accademia del Cimento in Florence: tracing the roots of the European scientific enterprise

Project Information

TACITROOTS

Grant agreement ID: 818098

DOI

10.3030/818098

Project closed

EC signature date 17 May 2019

Start date 1 June 2019

End date 30 November 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 708 206,00

EU contribution

€ 1 708 206,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
Italy

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (18)

An Impressive 17th-Century Viceregal Earthenware

Author(s): Ruggero Pace Gravina
Published in: Nuncius, Issue 40, 2025, Page(s) 435-459, ISSN 0394-7394
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/18253911-bja10153

Kepler’s snow: the epistemic playfulness of geometry in seventeenth-century Europe

Author(s): Stefano Gulizia
Published in: BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS, Issue 4, 2022, Page(s) 117-137, ISSN 2637-5451
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/26375451.2022.2092370

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli and the books of others : a contribution to the reconstruction of Borelli's Library

Author(s): G. Giannini
Published in: Physis : rivista internazionale di storia della scienza : LVII, 2, 2022, Issue 3, 2022, ISSN 2038-6265
Publisher: Olschki
DOI: 10.1400/290892

Legions of Records: (re)sourcing the Accademia del Cimento

Author(s): Giannini, Giulia; Barreca, Francesco
Published in: Physis : International Journal for the History of Science : LIX, 2, 2024, Issue 10, 2024, ISSN 2038-6265
Publisher: Olschki
DOI: 10.1400/298759

Alessandro Segni's ‘Pyramid of Knowledge' : Visualising the Cimento's Literary Authorities

Author(s): Ruggero Pace Gravina
Published in: Physis: International Journal for the History of Science : LIX, 2, 2024, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2038-6265
Publisher: Olshcki
DOI: 10.1400/298752

Borelli Reloaded: Contexts and Networks in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Author(s): Favino, F.; Giannini, G.
Published in: Physis: rivista internazionale di storia della scienza, Issue 14, 2022, Page(s) 289-297, ISSN 2038-6265
Publisher: Olschki
DOI: 10.1400/290984

The Erudite Pratictioner. Francesco Redi’s communication Strategies

Author(s): Noemi Di Tommaso
Published in: PHYSIS International Journal for the History of Science, 2024, ISSN 0031-9414
Publisher: Olschki

Beyond the Saggi: Experiments on Sound in the manuscripts of the Accademia del Cimento

Author(s): Elisabetta Rossi
Published in: Physis. International Journal for the History of Science, Issue LIX, 2024, Page(s) 409-430, ISSN 0031-9414
Publisher: Olschki
DOI: 10.1400/298754

Experiments on Colour Changes at the Accademia del Cimento

Author(s): Giulia Simonini
Published in: PHYSIS International Journal for the History of Science, 2024, ISSN 0031-9414
Publisher: Olschki
DOI: 10.1400/298755

Establishing an experimental agenda at the <i>Accademia del Cimento</i>: Carlo Rinaldini’s book lists

Author(s): Giulia Giannini
Published in: Annals of Science, Issue 9, 2023, Page(s) 112-142, ISSN 0003-3790
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2023.2168060

Vehicles of Knowledge : the Circulation of Thermometers between Florence, Warsaw and Paris (1654-1660)

Author(s): Giannini, Giulia
Published in: Physis : International Journal for the History of Science : LIX, 2, 2024, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2038-6265
Publisher: Olschki
DOI: 10.1400/298757

Towards a Computational History of Science: Limitations and Perspectives of an Emerging Research Approach

Author(s): Giannini, G.
Published in: PHYSIS, RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI STORIA DELLA SCIENZA, Issue 3, 2022, Page(s) 245-258, ISSN 0031-9414
Publisher: Olschki
DOI: 10.1400/289121

The Saggi di Naturali Esperienze as a Diplomatic Gift

Author(s): Molina Betancur
Published in: Physis : International Journal for the History of Science : LIX, 2, 2024, Issue 1, 2024, ISSN 2038-6265
Publisher: Olschki
DOI: 10.1400/298760

Between matematici and architetti d’acque: Vincenzo Viviani, Galileo’s legacy, and hydraulic engineering

Author(s): Francesco Barreca
Published in: Galilæana. Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Science, Issue Vol. 20 No. 1 (2023), 2023, Page(s) 121-151, ISSN 1971-6052
Publisher: Olschki
DOI: 10.57617/gal-2

International Perspectives on the Florentine Edition of Apollonius’ Conics. The Case of Michelangelo Ricci (1661)

Author(s): Alessandro Tripepi
Published in: Nuncius, Issue Volume 38 (2023): Issue 3 (Nov 2023), 2023, Page(s) 690–710, ISSN 0394-7394
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/18253911-bja10085

Experimental, Visual, and Print Practices in Early Modern Europe : the Accademia del Cimento and its Records

Author(s): Giannini, Giulia
Published in: Physis : International Journal for the History of Science : LIX, 2, 2024, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2038-6265
Publisher: Olschki
DOI: 10.1400/298751

Mathematics in the Accademia del Cimento: from a Language of Nature to a Language of Reason

Author(s): Angela Axworthy
Published in: PHYSIS International Journal for the History of Science, 2024, ISSN 0031-9414
Publisher: Olschki
DOI: 10.1400/298756

“Framing the “Tenth Muse”: Gendered strategies of intellectual legitimacy in the case of Maria Selvaggia Borghini (1654-1731)

Author(s): Noemi Di Tommaso
Published in: Galilaeana, 2025, ISSN 1971-6052
Publisher: online
DOI: 10.57617/gal-73

Thesis and dissertations (2)

ALLE ORIGINI DEL CIMENTO: RETI METEOROLOGICHE E INTELLETTUALI IN TOSCANA ALLA METÀ DEL SEICENTO

Author(s): Ruggero Pace Gravina
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Università degli Studi di Milano
DOI: 10.13130/pace-gravina-ruggero_phd2024-05-31

OBSERVING, TESTING, AND (RE)MEASURING: THE ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO¿S EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITY (1657-1667)

Author(s): ROSSI, ELISABETTA
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Università degli Studi di Milano

Book chapters (2)

An Indirect Convergence between the Accademia del Cimento and the Montmor Academy: The ‘Saturn dispute’

Author(s): Giulia Giannini
Published in: The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe, 2020, Page(s) 83-108, ISBN 9789004416864
Publisher: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004416871_005

Capturing, Modeling, Overseeing, and Making Credible: The Functions of Vision and Visual Material at the Accademia del Cimento

Author(s): Giulia Giannini
Published in: Scientific Visual Representations in History ISBN: 9783031113161, Issue 12, 2023, Page(s) 213-236, ISBN 978-3-031-11317-8
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-11317-8_7

Monographic books (1)

Giuseppe Campani, “Inventor Romae,” an Uncommon Genius

Author(s): Silvio Bedini, Cristiano Zanetti
Published in: Nuncius Series, Issue vol. 8, 2021, ISBN 978-90-04-46451-3
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004464513