scholarly journals Galileo, Astrologer

2003 ◽  
Vol 07 (01) ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Antonio Favaro
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Medical Doctors ◽  
Time Part ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University ◽  
Military Engineering ◽  
First Time

Editor's Note: Until the 1990s, there was no published work on Galileo's astrology except for the two papers published here by Antonio Favaro in Italian. These are presented here in English translation for the first time. Part 1: 'Galileo Astrologo' Editor's Note: This trailblazing essay by Antonio Favaro was composed a decade before he first started to publish his twenty-volume Opere* of Galileo's complete works, and was published in the periodical Mente e Cuore in 1881. Greatly ignored by scholars, it has of late been alluded to by Poppi and Ernst. The footnotes differ from the original in being numbered sequentially through the whole article; endnotes are added by Nick Kollerstrom. Part 2: Mathematics at the University of Padua before Galileo Editor's Note: Padua was Europe's second oldest university, after Bologna. One seeks in vain for anything written about its chair of mathematics, beyond this single essay by Favaro. This neglect is presumably on account of the central role which it assigned to astrology, down through the centuries. Santillana's essay The Crime of Galileo makes what one must view as a fictional statement, that,when Galileo accepted the Chair at Padua in 1592, 'The chair of mathematics then covered the teaching of geometry, astronomy, military engineering, and fortification' . That could describe Padua's mathematics chair a century later, perhaps in the 18th century. The first two paragraphs of Favaro's essay are here translated, and in addition two of Galileo's letters about his mathematics lectures are here reproduced, showing that the students who attended them were either philosophers or medical doctors - the latter, in order to learn how to erect a horoscope for the onset of disease.

Adam Zalužanský’s “De sexu plantarum” (1592): an early pioneering chapter on plant sexuality

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Funk
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
History Of Botany ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Botanical History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

In the history of botany, Adam Zalužanský (d. 1613), a Bohemian physician, apothecary, botanist and professor at the University of Prague, is a little-known personality. Linnaeus's first biographers, for example, only knew Zalužanský from hearsay and suspected he was a native of Poland. This ignorance still pervades botanical history. Zalužanský is mentioned only peripherally or not at all. As late as the nineteenth century, a researcher would be unaware that Zalužanský’s main work Methodi herbariae libri tres actually existed in two editions from two different publishers (1592, Prague; 1604, Frankfurt). This paper introduces the life and work of Zalužanský. Special attention is paid to the chapter “De sexu plantarum” of Zalužanský’s Methodus, in which, more than one hundred years before the well-known De sexu plantarum epistola of R. J. Camerarius, the sexuality of plants is suggested. Additionally, for the first time, an English translation of Zalužanský’s chapter on plant sexuality is provided.

Marble Busts and Fish Fossils

Nuncius ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 439-483
Author(s):  
Elena Canadelli
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
The Public ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Natural History Collection ◽  
Late 18Th Century ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University

The historical catalogs of the museum collections contain a wealth of information for historians seeking to reconstruct their contents, how they were displayed and the ways in which they were used. This paper will present the complete transcription of a draft catalog that was prepared in 1797 for the Museum of Natural History and Antiquities of the University of Padua. Conserved in the university’s Museum of Geology and Paleontology, the catalog was the first to be compiled of the museum, which was established in 1733 thanks to the donation by Antonio Vallisneri Jr. of his father Antonio Vallisneri Sr.’s collection of antiquities and natural history. The catalog was compiled by the custodian of the museum, the herbalist and amateur naturalist Bartolomeo Fabris. It is of great interest because it provides a record of the number and nature of the pieces conserved in the museum at a time when natural history and archeology collections were still undivided. It also provides indications as to how such collections were arranged for display in the public halls of a university at the end of the eighteenth century. Based on this catalog, with additional information drawn from other manuscript and published sources and museum catalogs from the 1830s conserved in various institutes at the University of Padua, it is possible to reconstruct the contents and layout of a significant late 18th-century natural history collection.

Andreas Frederik Beck’s Review of Philosophical Fragments

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Bruno Bauer ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThe present article presents the Danish theologian Andreas Frederik Beck and provides an English translation of his book review of Philosophical Fragments. In Kierkegaard’s time, Beck was a proponent of left Hegelianism and a follower of Bruno Bauer and David Friedrich Strauss. As a student of the University of Copenhagen, Beck was acquainted with Kierkegaard personally and had a special interest in The Concept of Irony, which he reviewed in 1842. In 1845 Beck published an anonymous book review in German of Philosophical Fragments in a theological journal in Berlin. This review, which appears here in English translation for the first time, provides some insight into the contemporary reception of this important work.

ABO Blood Groups in Hypophyseal Adenomas

1964 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 469-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgio Iraci ◽  
Gian Guido Toffolo
Keyword(s):  
Pituitary Adenoma ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Blood Groups ◽  
Histological Type ◽  
Abo Blood Groups ◽  
Present Survey ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Group Distribution

The statistical significance of variations in Wood group distribution among patients affected by chromophobe pituitary adenoma has been debated in recent reports. One hundred and fifty hypophyseal tumors (117 chromophobe adenomas and 33 adenomas of other histological type), operated for the first time at the Institute of Neurosurgery of the University of Padua, have been collected for such an analysis. No difference of statistical significance was detected by the present survey, although this fact is probably due to the small numbers of patients in each subgroup.

scholarly journals Galileo's telescopic observations: the marvel and meaning of discovery

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (S269) ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
George V. Coyne
Keyword(s):  
Observational Data ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
The Moon ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Intellectual Climate

AbstractDuring the very last year of what he himself described “as the best [eighteen] years of his life” spent at the University of Padua, Galileo first observed the heavens with a telescope. In order to appreciate the marvel and the true significance of those observations we must appreciate both the intellectual climate in Europe and the critical intellectual period through which Galileo himself was passing at the time those observations were made. Through his studies on motion Galileo had come to have serious doubts about the Aristotelian concept of nature. What he sensed was lacking was a true physics. He was very acute, therefore, when he came to sense the significance of his observations of the moon, of the phases of Venus, of the moons of Jupiter and of the Milky Way. The preconceptions of the Aristotelians were crumbling before his eyes. He had remained silent long enough, over a three month period, in his contemplations of the heavens. It was time to organize his thoughts and tell what he had seen and what he thought it meant. It was time to publish! In so doing he would become one of the pioneers of modern science. For the first time in over 2,000 years new significant observational data had been put at the disposition of anyone who cared to think, not in abstract preconceptions but in obedience to what the universe had to say about itself.

Headache as an Occupational Illness in the Treatise “De Morbis Artificum Diatriba” of Bernardino Ramazzini∗

Cephalalgia ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Zanchin ◽  
P Rossi ◽  
F Maggioni ◽  
H Isler
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Occupational Hazards ◽  
Occupational Illness ◽  
Important Symptom ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University

The treatise “De morbis artificum diatriba” (Modena, 1700) is considered to be the first text to specifically deal with occupational illnesses. It was also the last for over 150 years. Written by Bernardino Ramazzini (Carpi, 1633-Padua, 1714), a professor at the University of Padua from 1700 to 1714, the book highlights the importance given at the time to headache as an occupational symptom. Among the 69 professions described, accounting for the majority of the occupations of the period, 12 were found to lead to headache as an important symptom caused by work. Ramazzini appears to have paid more attention to this than we do today. Ramazzini's work opens up a wide view on social conditions in the 18th century, as his sensitivity for occupational hazards was exceptional. His remarks on headache are typical of his way of collecting first-hand experience of working conditions, and they underline the importance of occupational hazards in the assessment of headache, today just as in 1710.

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