Theory, Practice, and Nature In-between

Francesco Luzzini

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AB  - In the summer of 1704, Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730), the preeminent Italian physician and natural philosopher of his time, traveled with a “daring soul” and “trembling feet” across the “silent horrors” of the northern Apennines: down the hills south of Reggio Emilia to northern Tuscany and the western edge of his native land, the Province of Garfagnana. He then wrote a report of this adventure, the Primi Itineris per Montes Specimen Physico-Medicum (“Physico-medical example of a first journey through the mountains), and sent it to the Royal Society of London, hoping for its publication in Philosophical Transactions. Unfortunately this did not happen and the manuscript disappeared from sight. The original draft, however, survived in the State Archive of the Italian city of Reggio Emilia where it was found in 2009. With its exceptional array of geological, medical, geographical, technical, ethnographic, and historical data, the Primi Itineris Specimen is one of the earliest and most well-documented attempts to define a systematic approach to field research. Its frantically reworked pages and anxious marginal notes offer a new and precious opportunity to understand why and how experimental data and theories in the early modern period interacted and shaped the development of many crucial debates. These include the discovering of deep-time, the comprehension of geological phenomena (such as the hydrologic cycle and the origin of mountains and fossils), the perception of man’s place in nature, the constant search for new therapeutics, the tormented and charming relation between science and religion.BriefDescription:Critical edition of Antonio Vallisneri’s manuscript Primi Itineris Specimen (1705)
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Theory, Practice, and Nature In-between

Antonio Vallisneri’s Primi Itineris Specimen

Francesco Luzzini

Critical edition of Antonio Vallisneri’s manuscript Primi Itineris Specimen (1705)

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In the summer of 1704, Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730), the preeminent Italian physician and natural philosopher of his time, traveled with a “daring soul” and “trembling feet” across the “silent horrors” of the northern Apennines: down the hills south of Reggio Emilia to northern Tuscany and the western edge of his native land, the Province of Garfagnana. He then wrote a report of this adventure, the Primi Itineris per Montes Specimen Physico-Medicum (“Physico-medical example of a first journey through the mountains), and sent it to the Royal Society of London, hoping for its publication in Philosophical Transactions. Unfortunately this did not happen and the manuscript disappeared from sight. The original draft, however, survived in the State Archive of the Italian city of Reggio Emilia where it was found in 2009. With its exceptional array of geological, medical, geographical, technical, ethnographic, and historical data, the Primi Itineris Specimen is one of the earliest and most well-documented attempts to define a systematic approach to field research. Its frantically reworked pages and anxious marginal notes offer a new and precious opportunity to understand why and how experimental data and theories in the early modern period interacted and shaped the development of many crucial debates. These include the discovering of deep-time, the comprehension of geological phenomena (such as the hydrologic cycle and the origin of mountains and fossils), the perception of man’s place in nature, the constant search for new therapeutics, the tormented and charming relation between science and religion.BriefDescription:Critical edition of Antonio Vallisneri’s manuscript Primi Itineris Specimen (1705)

PART I Introduction

PART II Primi Itineris per Montes Specimen Physico-Medicum: Transcription

3 Main Manuscript: Transcription

4 Other Papers: Transcription

5 Maps: Transcription

PART III Primi Itineris per Montes Specimen Physico-Medicum: Translation

6 Main Manuscript: Translation

7 Other Papers: Translation

8 Maps: Translation

Bibliography

PART IV Primi Itineris per Montes Specimen Physico-Medicum: Facsimile

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Académie Royale des Sciences

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Accademia degli Inquieti (then Accademia delle Scienze dell’Istituto di Bologna)

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Babu, Senthil

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Bacci, Andrea

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Bacon, Francis

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Baconian method

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Banfi, Antonio

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Barsotti (unknown)

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Bartel, Kraig

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Bartholin, Caspar (the Younger)

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Becchi, Antonio

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Becher, Johann Johachim

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Bentivoglio, Cornelio

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Bertacchi, Pellegrino

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Bettini, Mario

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Blancus (Saint)

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Bocchi, Girolamo

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Boggs, Bruce

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Boggs, Serafina

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Bonolis, Luisa

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Borghi, Beatrice

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Borso d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio

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Bortolomai, Ileana

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Bosio, Giovanni

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Boulden, Kristal

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Bourguet, Louis

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Bowen, Sonya

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Boyle, Robert

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Bradley, Bruce

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Brincefield, Angela

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Browar, Lisa

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Brutus, Marcus Iunius

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Burnes, James

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Burton-Rose, Daniel

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Caesar, Gaius Iulius

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Caglio, Alberto

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Calcagni, Simone

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Cardano, Girolamo

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Carlisle, Tara

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Carraway Vitiello, Joanna

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Cartesianism

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Cassiodorus Senator, Flavius Marius Aurelius

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Cassius, Gaius Longinus

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Castelli, Benedetto

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Castracani degli Antelminelli, Castruccio, Duke of Lucca

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Catilina, Lucius Sergius

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Cato maior, Marcus Porcius

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Cavalchi, Bruno

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Cecchi, Domenico

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Celsus, Aulus Cornelius

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Censorship

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Chen, Esther

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Chierici, Gaetano

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Chinn, Katherine

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius

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Cillei (unknown)

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Claudianus, Claudius

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Clayton, Sarah

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Cohn, Norman

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Colominas Aparicio, Mònica

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Colonna, Fabio

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Corbacella, Giorgio

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Corbett, Caitlin

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Corbly, David

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Corghi, Flaminio

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Corradi d’Austria (de’), Domenico

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Cox, Logan

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Cyrus the Younger, Persian prince

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Dal Pra, Mario

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Davini, Carlo

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De Boodt, Anselmus Boëtius

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De Monconys, Balthasar

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De Pablo, Montserrat

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De Stefani, Marco

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De Zen, Roberto

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Dereham, Thomas

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Descartes, René

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Divarci, Lindy

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Edition Open Sources project

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Eldridge, Meredith

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Ellenberger, François

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Empiricism

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Ercolano da Piegaro (Blessed)

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Ercole I d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio

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Este (House of)

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Ettmüller, Michael

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Eutychianus (Saint), Pope

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Fabre, Pierre-Jean

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Fabri, Honore

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Falco, Pietro

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Falloppio, Gabriele

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Felicius, Bishop of Lucca

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Fidler, Meghan

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Field research

Florus, Lucius Annaeus

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Fludd, Robert

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Francesco I d’Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio

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Franchini Taviani, Niccolò

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Fridianus (Saint)

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Galenus/Γαληνός

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Galilean experimentalism

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Galilei, Galileo

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Gellius, Aulus

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Gemelli, Benedino

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Generali, Dario

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Gessner, Conrad

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Geymonat, Ludovico

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Gilbert, Charles

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Giovannini, Girolamo

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Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio

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Gould, Stephen Jay

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Grant, Carl

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Graves Stuart, Stella

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Graziani, Giovanni

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Green, Nancy

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Guazzelli, Michelangelo

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Guglielmini, Domenico

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Guidi, Bartolomeo

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Guinigi, Paolo

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Habsburg (House of)

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Hale, Piers

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Halicarnassensis, Dionysius

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Halley, Edmond

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Hannibal Barca

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Herbinius, Johannes

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Hieronymus, Eusebius Sophronius (Saint)

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Hippocrates/ʽΙπποκράτης

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Honoratus, Servius Marius

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Hooke, Robert

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Hybrida, Caius Antonius

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Imperato, Ferrante

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Imperiale, Louis

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International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences (INHIGEO)

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Irenaeus (Saint)

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Jacopucci, Giacobbe

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Jüngken, Johann Helfrich

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Kelley, Tanya

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Kircher, Athanasius

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Kölbl-Ebert, Martina

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Laevinus, Caius Valerius

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Lahey, Michelle

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Lalli, Roberto

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Lanzoni, Giuseppe

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Laufersweiler, Barbara

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Laufersweiler, Mark

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Lavelli, Jacopo

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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

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Leibnizianism

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Leopold I of Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor

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Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius

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Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology

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Lister, Martin

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Livesey, Steven J.

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Livius, Titus Patavinus

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Locke, John

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Louis II of Italy, Holy Roman Emperor

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Luce, Richard E. (Rick)

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Lucretius, Titus Carus

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Luigi d’Este Juniore, Governor of Reggio and Marquess of Scandiano

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Luzzini, Francesco

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L’afflitto, Andrea

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Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius

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Maffei, Raffaele

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Maggioni, Maurizio

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Magruder, Kerry V.

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Mahdavi, Younes

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Malebranche, Nicolas

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Maleone (da), Carlo

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Malpighi, Marcello

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Marcus Antonius

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Mariotte, Edme

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Marius, Gaius

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Marsili, Luigi Ferdinando

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Martinetti, Piero

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Matilde di Canossa

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG)

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McDonald, Jenna

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Medici (House of)

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Meloni, Stefano

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Micotti, Anselmo

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Mini, Paolo

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Modarres, Ali

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Monti, Maria Teresa

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Morello, Nicoletta

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Morganti, Bartolomeo

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Munz, Tania

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Murena, Lucius Licinius

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Nanni, Giovanni (Annio da Viterbo)

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Natural philosophy

Newcomb, Sally

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Niccum, Barbara

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Norris, John A.

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Novello, Francesca

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Octavianus Augustus, Gaius Iulius Caesar, Roman Emperor

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Ofella, Quintus Lucretius

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Oldroyd, David R.

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Omodeo, Pietro Daniel

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Orsucci (unknown)

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Palissy, Bernard

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Palmeri, JoAnn

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Pandora, Katherine

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Paul (Saint), Apostle

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Paulinus of Antioch (Saint)

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Pellegrino delle Alpi (Saint)

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Pennuto, Concetta

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Perotti, Niccolò

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Perrault, Pierre

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Peter (Saint), Apostle

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Petrarca, Francesco

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Petreius, Marcus

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Petronius, Gaius Arbiter

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Plato/Πλάτων

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Plinius (Maior), Gaius Secundus

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Plinius (Minor), Gaius Caecilius Secundus

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Plot, Robert

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Plutarchus/Πλούταρχος

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Poli, Oscar

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Pompeius, Gnaeus Magnus

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Pope, Jackson R., III

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Popper, Karl

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Porzio, Simone

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Preti, Giulio

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Primitivus (Saint)

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Ptolemaeus/Πτολεμαῖος

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Purkaple, Brent

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Raggi (unknown)

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Ramazzini, Bernardino

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Rappaport, Rhoda

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Raspona (family)

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Redi, Francesco

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Reiss, Fred

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Reiter, Scott

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Renn, Jürgen

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Republic of Letters

Rickman, Melissa

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Rispoli, Giulia

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Roberts, Cari

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Rocchi, Pietro

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Rodelia (de), Filippo

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Rohault, Jacques

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Rossi, Giulio

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Rossi, Paolo

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Royal Society of London

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Rudwick, Martin J.S.

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Ruffini, Antonio

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Rullianus, Quintus Fabius Maximus

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Rupp-Serrano, Karen

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Rutilius Namatianus, Claudius

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Ruysch, Frederick

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Sallustius, Gaius Crispus

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Sanvito, Valter

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Saumaise, Claude

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Sbaraglia, Giovanni Girolamo

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Scheuchzer, Johann

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Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob

Schoepflin, Urs

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Schott, Franz

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Schott, Gaspar

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Science and religion

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Scilla, Agostino

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Selenu, Stefano

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Serrano, Elena

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Serrano, Gabriel

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Sherman, Jason

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Silanus, Decimus Iunius

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Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius Asconius

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Sloane, Hans

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Spallanzani, Ippolito

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Spurinus, Quintus Petilius

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Stack, Martin

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Stancari, Vittorio Francesco

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State Archive of Reggio Emilia

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Suetonius, Gaius Tranquillus

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Sulla, Lucius Cornelius

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Swischer, Donna

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Sydenham, Thomas

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Taylor, Kenneth L.

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Terentius of Luni (Saint)

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Terni, Giambattista

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Testi, Fulvio

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Theodorus (Saint)

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Thoden, Klaus

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Tippit, Walker

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Torre (del), Filippo

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Tramonti, Timoteo

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Trevisan, Bernardo

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Triacca, Michela

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Tutidanus, Caius Sempronius

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University of Bari

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University of Bologna

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University of East Piedmont

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University of Insubria

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University of Milan

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University of Oklahoma

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University of Oklahoma Libraries

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University of Padua

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Valerius (Saint)

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Valleriani, Matteo

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Valli, Paolo

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Vallisneri, Mauro

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Van der Schoot, Joas

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Zemke, Eric

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Marco Pantaloni, "Francesco Luzzini. Theory, Practice, and Nature In-between: Antonio Vallisneri’s “Primi Itineris Specimen.”.," Isis 110, no. 4 (December 2019): 829-831. DOI: 10.1086/706331

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Theory, Practice, and Nature In-between

Antonio Vallisneri’s Primi Itineris Specimen

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Académie Royale des Sciences

Accademia degli Inquieti (then Accademia delle Scienze dell’Istituto di Bologna)

Accademia dei Muti

Adalbert I, Margrave of Tuscany

Agricola (Bauer), Georgius (Georg)

Albritton, Claude

Alfonso I d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio

Alfonso II d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio

Alfonso III d’Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio

Andrietti, Franco

Annoni, Luca

Antoninus Pius, Titus Aelius Hadrianus Augustus, Roman Emperor

Appianus/Ἀππιανὸς

Arco (de), Giovanni Filippo

Arena, Libera Paola

Ariosto, Ludovico

Axworthy, Angela

Azzari, Fulvio

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Babu, Senthil

Bacci, Andrea

Bacon, Francis

Baconian method

Banfi, Antonio

Barsotti (unknown)

Bartel, Kraig

Bartholin, Caspar (the Younger)

Becchi, Antonio

Becher, Johann Johachim

Bentivoglio, Cornelio

Bertacchi, Pellegrino

Bettini, Mario

Blancus (Saint)

Bocchi, Girolamo

Boggs, Bruce

Boggs, Serafina

Bonolis, Luisa

Borghi, Beatrice

Borso d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio

Bortolomai, Ileana

Bosio, Giovanni

Boulden, Kristal

Bourguet, Louis

Bowen, Sonya

Boyle, Robert

Bradley, Bruce

Brincefield, Angela

Browar, Lisa

Brutus, Marcus Iunius

Burnes, James

Burton-Rose, Daniel

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Caesar, Gaius Iulius

Caglio, Alberto

Calcagni, Simone

Cardano, Girolamo

Carlisle, Tara

Carraway Vitiello, Joanna

Cartesianism

Cassiodorus Senator, Flavius Marius Aurelius

Cassius, Gaius Longinus

Castelli, Benedetto

Castracani degli Antelminelli, Castruccio, Duke of Lucca

Catilina, Lucius Sergius

Cato maior, Marcus Porcius

Cavalchi, Bruno

Cecchi, Domenico

Celsus, Aulus Cornelius

Censorship

Chen, Esther

Chierici, Gaetano

Chinn, Katherine

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Cillei (unknown)

Claudianus, Claudius

Clayton, Sarah

Cohn, Norman