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|Name(s)=Raphael, Renée
|Title=Literary Technology and Its Replication: Teaching the Torricellian Void and Air-Pump at the Collegio Romano
|Year=2021
|Language=English
|Contained in=Teaching Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Text and Image
|Bibliographic level=Book chapter
|Cited in=This chapter considers how seventeenth-century Jesuit professors of philosophy at the Collegio Romano depicted experiments involving the air-pump and Torricellian void. In contrast to previous scholarship, which has focused on Jesuit responses to the values of the new experimental philosophy and on issues of censorship, this chapter addresses the process of textual replication, in particular, how professors chose to recount experiments they found in printed books in the printed and manuscript texts they composed for classroom use. It argues that professors included textual details and visual images of experimental procedures to validate their competence as readers and their qualifications as participants in the wider natural philosophical community. This conclusion offers a point of contrast to previous discussions of the literary technology associated with seventeenth-century experimental texts, which, according to Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, served to bolster an author’s credibility and to transform readers into virtual witnesses. The different role these details served in the context of teaching at the Collegio Romano likely derived from their inclusion in pedagogical texts, a genre in which the authoritativeness and reliability of the included narratives were assumed.
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