Federico Cesi (1585–1630) and the correspondence network of his Accademia dei Lincei

Andrea Ubrizsy Savoia

doi:10.18352/studium.1555

A Roman correspondence: George Ent and Cassiano dal Pozzo, 1637–55

Notes and Records the Royal Society journal of the history of science ◽

10.1098/rsnr.2004.0074 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

pp. 5-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

A. Cook

Keyword(s):

Royal Society ◽

Fossil Wood ◽

Significant Part ◽

Federico Cesi ◽

Accademia Dei Lincei

George Ent (FRS 1663), a distinguished physician, was in Rome in 1636, visited the notable collector Cassiano dal Pozzo and saw his Paper Museum. After he returned to London he carried on a correspondence with Cassiano in letters of more than ordinary interest. Cassiano had sent Ent specimens of fossil wood and a table made from fossil wood. They had come from the estates at Acquasparta belonging to Prince Federico Cesi, the founder of the Accademia dei Lincei. The specimens and the table were shown to early meetings of The Royal Society and had a significant part in the developing debate on the origin of fossils. The letters also record exchanges of books between London and Rome. Among medical matters there is news of William Harvey and his works.

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The opposite poles of a debate - lapides figurati and the Accademia dei Lincei

Substantia ◽

10.36253/substantia-1275 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 19-28

Author(s):

Alessandro Ottaviani

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

The Other ◽

Plant Fossils ◽

Federico Cesi ◽

Accademia Dei Lincei ◽

The One

The essay analyses the research carried out by some members of the Accademia dei Lincei on lapides figurati, namely by Fabio Colonna on animal fossils, and by Federico Cesi and Francesco Stelluti on plant fossils; the aim is to show the role played by the Accademia dei Lincei in establishing during the second half of the seventeenth century the opposite poles of the debate on the lapides figurati, on the one hand as chronological indices of a past world and, on the other, as sudden outcome of the vis vegetativa.

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Rome and the Royal Society, 1660-1740

Notes and Records the Royal Society journal of the history of science ◽

10.1098/rsnr.2003.0222 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 58 (1) ◽

pp. 3-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

A. Cook

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Royal Society ◽

Classical Education ◽

John Ray ◽

Federico Cesi ◽

New Churches ◽

Accademia Dei Lincei ◽

Queen Christina Of Sweden ◽

John Evelyn

Most Fellows of The Royal Society in the late seventeenth century knew Rome through their classical education and would have been attracted to visit it for the remains of antiquity and for the new churches and palaces of the papal city. John Evelyn, in Rome 16 years before the foundation of the Society, John Ray, Edmond Halley and Robert Nelson, and Bishop Burnet and G.W. Leibniz, also met people who had links to the Accademia dei Lincei of Prince Federico Cesi, and to the later Accademia Fisica-mathematica associated with Queen Christina of Sweden. Besides astronomy, they were especially interested in cabinets of curiosities and in Vesuvius and other volcanic sites. They met English residents in Rome, especially those around the Venerable English College.

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