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<h5>Vincenzo Viviani, <i>Studi sul moto pendolare</i></h5>
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<p class="Normal-H" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;">17th cent.<br/>Paper codex; ff. 283 (II + 281); 32x26,3 cm<br/>Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Ms. Gal. 269, f. 51r</p>
<p class="Normal-H" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;">Autographed texts bearing witness to the experimental work of Viviani, "the last disciple" of Galileo, in different fields (mechanics, pneumatics, thermometry). The drawing on display summarizes the results of measurements relative to the number of oscillations performed at the same time by pendulums of different lengths.</p>
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<a href="emed.asp?c=70092"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/70092_60q.gif" alt="Justus Suttermans, Portrait of Ferdinando II de&#8217; Medici (copy)" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=70093"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/70093_60q.gif" alt="Justus Suttermans, Portrait of Leopoldo de&#8217; Medici" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35455"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35455_60q.gif" alt="Jean François Niceron, Anamorphic portrait of Ferdinando II" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=70094"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/70094_60q.gif" alt="Jean François Niceron, La Perspective curieuse, ou Magie artificielle des effects merveilleux" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35390"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35390_60q.gif" alt="Magnetic compass" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35392"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35392_60q.gif" alt="Erasmus Habermel, Theodolite" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35393"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35393_60q.gif" alt="Thobias Volckmer, Quadrant" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35397"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35397_60q.gif" alt="Astronomical compendium" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35398"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35398_60q.gif" alt="Wentzel Jamnitzer, Surveying instrument" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=70095"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/70095_60q.gif" alt="Wentzel Jamnitzer, Beschreibung und underricht diesel frembden, kunstlichen und sehr nützlichen instrumenten, welche zum absehen und abmessen, in die hoch, tiefften, und weiten, auch zu vestungen dieselben mit iren ecke und winckeln abzumessen, auch ander" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=70096"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/70096_60q.gif" alt="Lorenzo Magalotti, Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell'Accademia del Cimento" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=70097"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/70097_60q.gif" alt="Spiral thermometer" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=70098"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/70098_60q.gif" alt="Tall-stem thermometer" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=70099"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/70099_60q.gif" alt="Thermometer in the shape of a frog" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=70100"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/70100_60q.gif" alt="Cluster thermometer called &#8220;infingardo&#8221; (slothful)" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35465"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35465_60q.gif" alt="Sphere hydrometers" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35466"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35466_60q.gif" alt="Phials" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/70101_60q.gif" alt="Vincenzo Viviani, Studi sul moto pendolare" class="active" width="60" height="60"/><a href="emed.asp?c=70102"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/70102_60q.gif" alt="&#8220;Arcicanna&#8221; (long telescope)" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35463"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35463_60q.gif" alt="Christoph Schissler and Hans Christoph Schissler [attr.], Pedometer" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35464"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35464_60q.gif" alt="Carlo Renaldini, Anton Francesco Tofani, Jacopo Mariani, Quadrant" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=70103"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/70103_60q.gif" alt="La risoluzione di più problemi stati proposti nel Accademia del Sig.r Abate Ottavio della Vacchia l&#8217;anno 1662 con i nomi di chi propose et di chi ha risoluto" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a></div>
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