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Science in the Domestic Sphere Masterpieces of Science edited by Filippo Camerota introduction by Paolo Galluzzi Museo Galileo’s new permanent exhibition Supervision Emanuele Masiello, Soprintendenza per i Beni Building renovation and technical installations Architettonici, Paesaggistici, Storici, Artistici have been made possible through an agreement ed Etnoantropologici per le province di Firenze, protocol between the Ministero per i Beni Pistoia e Prato e le Attività Culturali and the Regione Toscana. General coordination The exhibition set-up and display systems have Teresa Saviori been financed by the Ente Cassa di Risparmio _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ di Firenze. Graphic design RovaiWeber design Video guides hardware and software have been President acquired through the City of Florence Integrated Building restoration Ginolo Ginori Conti Urban Plan for Sustainable Development. COBAR – Costruzioni Barozzi, Altamura (BA) CIEM – Costruzione Impianti Elettrici Board of Trustees The interactive exhibits have been funded Manutenzione, Scandicci (FI) Carlo Bossi, Comune di Firenze by the Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università Professional Security – Sistemi elettronici Guido Chelazzi, Università di Firenze e della Ricerca and by Toscana Energia. di sicurezza, Florence Massimo Inguscio, Università di Firenze Decoart – Restauro e conservazione opere Giorgio Van Straten, Ministero dell’Istruzione, The catalogue has been produced thanks to the d’arte, Florence dell’Università e della Ricerca support from the Fondazione Renato Giunti. Museum display production Director Under the patronage of the Comitato Nazionale Laboratorio Museotecnico Goppion, Paolo Galluzzi per le Celebrazioni del IV Centenario delle Trezzano sul Naviglio (MI) scoperte celesti di Galileo. Opera Laboratori Fiorentini, Florence Vice Director Collection Manager Concept and scientific coordination Lighting consultant Filippo Camerota Paolo Galluzzi, with Filippo Camerota Lumen – Le forme della luce, Bettolle (SI) and Giorgio Strano Vice Director Monitors and video projection systems Research and Website Coordinator Curators Natali Multimedia, Florence Marco Beretta Marco Beretta (Room XVII) Paola Bertucci (Rooms XI, XVIII) Restoration of scientific instruments Curator Paolo Brenni (Rooms XII-XVI) Daniele Angellotto, Florence Giorgio Strano Filippo Camerota (Rooms I, III-VI) Centro di Studi e Restauro per la valorizzazione Paolo Galluzzi (Rooms VII-IX) di orologi antichi e strumentaria storico- Curator Emeritus Mara Miniati (Rooms VIII, X) scientifica, ITI-IPIA Leonardo da Vinci, Florence Mara Miniati Giorgio Strano (Rooms II, IX) Centro restauri Piacenti, Prato L’Officina del Restauro di Andrea e Lucia Dori, Architectural and museum display design Florence Guicciardini & Magni Architetti: Piero RELART di Roberto Buda, Florence Guicciardini, Marco Magni, Edoardo Botti, Restauro dipinti Studio 4, Florence Nicola Capezzuoli, Giuseppe Lo Presti, with Bettina Schindler-Pratesi, Florence the collaboration of Maria Cristina Rizzello Studio Sergio Boni, Florence Natalini Architetti: Adolfo Natalini With the collaboration of Giampaolo Curioni and Andrea Rabbi Structural engineering Leonardo Paolini – Sertec Scientific analysis for restoration Consorzio Interuniversitario per lo Sviluppo dei Mechanical plant design Sistemi a Grande Interfase, Università di Firenze Luca Sani, with the collaboration Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Firenze of Claudia Barsotti Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze ENEA – Dipartimento FIM-MATQUAL Electrical installation design Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare – LABEC, Gianmario Magnifico Florence Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata, Florence Work safety coordinator Istituto per la Valorizzazione del Legno e delle Lorenzo Leoncini Specie Arboree – CNR, Florence Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence Politecnico di Milano Replicas, models and facsimiles Educational workshops Catalogue Stella Battaglia and Gianni Miglietta, Florence Museo Galileo: Andrea Gori (coordination), Centro di Studi e Restauro per la valorizzazione with Carmen Gagliardi di orologi antichi e strumentaria storico- Maria Cecilia Foianesi, Stefano Lecci, Edited by scientifica, ITI-IPIA Leonardo da Vinci, Florence Gianni Miglietta, Riccardo Pratesi Filippo Camerota Laboratorio di Moleria Locchi, Florence Opera Laboratori Fiorentini, Florence Press office Introduction by Philobiblion di Claudius Schettino, Florence Catola & Partners, Florence Paolo Galluzzi Multimedia applications Acknowledgements Editorial coordination Museo Galileo – multimedia unit: Jacopo Tonini Cristina Acidini, Marcella Antonini, Piero Laura Manetti (coordination), Andrea Braghiroli, Fabio Corica, Baglioni, Alessandra Barbieri, Massimo Batoni, Silvia Paoli, Daniela Vespoli, with the Lorenzo Becattini, Andrea Bernardoni, Paolo Managing editor collaboration of Luisa Barattin Blasi, Maurizio Boni, Alberto Bruschi, Giorgio Claudio Pescio and Riccardo Fontana Burzio, Ugo Caffaz, Veronica Campinoti, Ciro The new applications expand the earlier version Castelli, Roberto Cecchi, Ario Ceccotti, Paolo Editor produced also by Elisabetta Bardi, Riccardo Cocchi, Antonio de Crescenzo, Marinella Del Dario Dondi Braga, Francesco Cocchi, Roberta Massaini, Buono, Elena Dilaghi Pestellini, Franco Monica Tassi Filippelli, Cecilia Frosinini, Antonio Gherdovich, Editorial collaboration Giuseppe Gherpelli, Rodorico Giorgi, Antonio M. Lucrezia Galleschi, Sara Draghi Website Godoli, Novella Grassi, Fulvio Grazzini, Michele Concept and coordination Gremigni, Paola Grifoni, Sandra Logli, Mario Translations Museo Galileo: Marco Beretta, Iolanda Rolfo Augusto Lolli Ghetti, Nicola Macchionni, Catherine Frost Production Graziano Magrini, Pierandrea Mandò, Luca Museo Galileo: Marco Berni, Sara Bonechi, Mantellassi, Giampiero Maracchi, Alessandra Graphic and cover design Fabrizio Butini, Stefano Casati, Roberto Cortini, Marino, Alessandro Migliori, Pietro Moioli, RovaiWeber design Leonardo Curioni, Elena Fani, Alessandra Lenzi, Giuseppe Molesini, Manuela Morbidi, Antonio Damiana Luzzi, Roberta Massaini, Natali, Lynne Otten, Andrea Palmieri, Giovanni Technical coordination Gabriele Pratesi, Iolanda Rolfo, Palumbo, Antonio Paolucci, Daniele Pieri, Alessio Conticini Monica Tassi, Corrado Veser Giovanna Poggi, Maddalena Ragni, Gian Bruno Ravenni, Claudio Rosati, Angela Saviori, Claudio Photolithograph Video guides Seccaroni, Mario Serio, Thomas Settle, Aniello Fotolito Toscana Coordination Sorrentino, Edoardo Speranza Museo Galileo: Jacopo Tonini Iconographic research Editorial coordination and guided itineraries Museo Galileo – Photographic Archive: Museo Galileo: Filippo Camerota, Iolanda Rolfo, Franca Principe, with the collaboration Jacopo Tonini http://www.museogalileo.it of Sabina Bernacchini and Giovanni Volante Texts of adult itinerary Marco Beretta, Paola Bertucci, Paolo Brenni, Photographs Filippo Camerota, Mara Miniati, Giorgio Strano Archivio di Stato di Firenze Texts of children itinerary Saulo Bambi – Museo di Storia Naturale, Carmen Gagliardi, Maria Cecilia Foianesi Florence Adaptation of texts Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence Graziano Magrini Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence English translations Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence Jonathan Mandelbaum Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby Navigation structure Fratelli Alinari, Florence Museo Galileo – multimedia unit: Cuahutemuc Giancaterino, Florence Leonardo Curioni, Roberta Massaini, Paolo Giusti, Lastra a Signa (FI) Iolanda Rolfo, Jacopo Tonini Guicciardini & Magni Architetti, Florence Sound Musei Civici Fiorentini, Florence MP Communication, Florence Museo del Prado, Madrid Hardware Museo Galileo, Florence Multimedia Italian Technology, Florence National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence Iconographic research and image optimizing Maria Cristina Rizzello, Florence Museo Galileo – Photographic Archive: Sabina Soprintendenza per il Patrimonio Storico, Bernacchini, Franca Principe, Paola Scortecci, Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per Giovanni Volante, with the collaboration il Polo Museale della città di Firenze of Daniela Vespoli Yale University, New Haven Table of Contents Foreword 9 The Accademia del Cimento and the Legacy of Galileo 171 Paolo Galluzzi Paolo Galluzzi Museo Galileo: An Eighty-Years History 12 The Lorraine Collections 196 From the “Stanzino delle Matematiche” The Lorraine Collections 201 to the Museo Galileo 15 Mara Miniati Paolo Galluzzi The Spectacle of Science 215 The Premises of the Museo Galileo 51 Paola Bertucci Luigi Zangheri Teaching and Popularizing Science 229 The Project for the Museo Galileo 61 Paolo Brenni Piero Guicciardini, Marco Magni The Precision Instrument Industry 243 The Medici Collections 66 Paolo Brenni The Medici Collections 71 Measuring Natural Phenomena 257 Filippo Camerota Paolo Brenni Astronomy, the Measurement of Time Chemistry and the Public Usefulness of Science 271 and Power at the Medici Court 87 Marco Beretta Giorgio Strano Science in the Domestic Sphere 285 The Representation of the World 103 Paola Bertucci Angelo Cattaneo Appendices 298 The Science of Navigation 119 Filippo Camerota Bibliography 301 The Science of Warfare 137 Abbreviations 326 Filippo Camerota Index of Names 327 Galileo Galilei: the New Science and its Instruments 153 Paolo Galluzzi Room XI The Spectacle of Science Paola Bertucci In 1780 the painter Filippo Lucci was commissioned to else can understand,”3 depended significantly on the work finish the ceiling decoration in a new section of the Mathe-
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