The ideas, dramas, protagonists and contradictions at work during the century and a half in which the difficult birth of science took place. “An admirable example of ease, transparency and precision in dominating a vast subject such as that of the gradual affirmation, in the various European countries, of the image of the world that has taken root since the ‘scientific revolution’ of the seventeenth century”. Armando Massarenti, Il Sole 24Ore
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Paolo Rossi
Paolo Rossi (b. Urbino, 1923) taught History of Philosophy at the University of Florence. His publications include: Francis Bacon. From magic to science (Bari, 1957); Clavis universalis. Arts of memory and combinational logic from Lullo to Leibniz (Bologna, 1983); Spiders and ants: an apologia of the history of science (Bologna, 1986); The Past, Memory, Oblivion (Bologna, 1991, winner of the 1992 Viareggio Prize); and, Another Present (Bologna, 2000). He is a member of the Accademia dei Lincei. In 1985 he received the Sarton Medallion for history of science from the American History of Science Society.
