Light and Void. The Philosophical Background of Valerian Magni’s Vacuum Experiments
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F19%3A73596172" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/19:73596172 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333176058" target="_blank" >https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333176058</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00324" target="_blank" >10.1162/posc_a_00324</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Light and Void. The Philosophical Background of Valerian Magni’s Vacuum Experiments
Original language description
The subject of the article is the interpretation of a series of experiments proving the existence of vacuum. This was performed by the Capuchin Valerian Magni in 1647 and described in the treatise Demonstratio ocularis, which is the first printed text referring to successful experiments with vacuum. The work generated great controversy at the time, not only with opponents of void, but also with French scholars, who accused Magni of plagiarism. The article reconstructs both the situation around the work’s publication and the reaction to it, with an aim of presenting the philosophical background behind Magni’s experiments. Magni understood the experiments as confirmation of his anti-Aristotelianism, and placed them among his metaphysics and natural philosophy, in which he attributes the key epistemological and ontological function to light.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GB14-37038G" target="_blank" >GB14-37038G: Between Renaissance and Baroque: Philosophy and Knowledge in the Czech Lands within the Wider European Context</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Perspectives on Science
ISSN
1063-6145
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2019, 27
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
767-786
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85085925244