Ottaviani, Alessandro. "Natura ed esattezza all’alba della scienza galileiana. Le ‘Observationes’ di Fabio Colonna"
- Autores: José Pardo Tomás
- Localización: Nuncius: annali di storia della scienza, ISSN 0394-7394, Vol. 38, Nº. 1, 2023, págs. 202-204
- Idioma: inglés
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Natura ed esattezza all’alba della scienza galileiana. Le ‘Observationes’ di Fabio Colonna
Alessandro Ottaviani
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Alessandro Ottaviani, Natura ed esattezza all’alba della scienza galileiana. Le ‘Observationes’ di Fabio Colonna . Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2021. LVIII, 279 pp. ISBN: 9788893595650.
For several generations, the main task of historians of science was to edit sources. The tremendous scholarly effort that went into editing a historical scientific text with rigour and method was more than justified in view of the precarious state of conservation of some of those texts, especially, but not only, manuscripts. Those who practise the history of science in these first decades of the 21st century owe a great deal to that activity, whose roots lay in the positivism of the 19th century, that in which the discipline was born.
