The article is about the discovery, in Acquapendente, of a picture dated in its upper part 1609, and representing Girolamo Fabrizi from Acquapendente. He is dressed in characteristic anatomical clothes, with a particular headgear, different from the traditional one called "calotta", and he is wearing two chains, partially identifiable with the honorific one he was awarded by the S. Marco's Order in 1608.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBeginning from the XV century, mechanical materialism underwent an evolution in "biological mechanics" within the scientific doctrine. Among the greatest exponents of this new current there were two Italian men, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) and Girolamo da Acquapendente (1533-1619). By the trend given by Leonardo, the myology, instead of being a static science, took a dynamic meaning and valence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe origin of the knowledge, explained through the perception of the colours saw, during many years, the contrast between the two theories asserted by the objectivists and subjectivists. the authors have emblematically brought the two schools back to two excellent personages: Newton (1704) and Goethe (1810), the former physicist, the latter naturalist. Newton was an upholder of the corpuscolar theory of the light and of the objective process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIccus of Taranto was a famous athlete living in the V century B.C. and participating in Olympic competitions, of which was a winner in the LXXXVII games.
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