Blog

Storia e Ragione

Storia e Ragione: i tre paradigmi storiografici estratti da Kuhn da tre teorie scientifiche, History and Reason: The Three Historiographic Paradigms Extracted by Kuhn from Three Scientific Theories, AHS, 2016 . 

 

 

A cura del prof. Pietro Cerreta e A. Drago

SonS festival 2017: Italy, Vincenzo Favale, Pietro Cerreta: The Tusi couple

European Science on Stage festival 2017 – Cooperation for Science Teaching: The Tusi couple is a mechanical device (two models are shown) which works according to the Theorem of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, theologian of the 1200 Islamic Persia. This theorem states that: If a circumference rolls internally to another, of double radius, having uniform angular speed, each point of it moves in a rectilinear harmonic motion. Tusi developed this in the cultural period influenced by the Ptolemaic system, in order to simplify the astronomical calculations of the time. It is sure that Copernicus has used this theorem composing his famous De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543.

La candela di Faraday

La candela di Faraday, un bell’esempio di diffusione della cultura scientifica

 

Riassunto

“La storia chimica di una candela” di Faraday continua ad essere fonte di preziosi spunti e suggerimenti didattici, nonostante siano trascorsi centocinquanta anni dalla sua pubblicazione…