The Aerial Ship (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Francesco Lana's scientific activity was enormous; his study of aerial navigation, indeed, forms but the merest fraction of his researches in almost every branch of science. He lived, in fact, in that delightful period when universality was yet attainable, and a single mind could still embrace the entire field of science in all its manifold aspects. In pursuing his researches, how ever, Lana's particularly honest mind came into con stant opposition with the mass of unreliable informa tion on which so-called scientific theories were then based, no less than with the total absence of proof of many phenomena which were successively accepted as true by one experimenter after another. He conceived, therefore, the project of rewriting the whole of science, but based now on actual experiment and incontroverti ble proof. Of this immense work, written in Latin, and embracing the whole of scientific knowledge then available, only two volumes appeared during Lana's lifetime, under the title Magisterium Naturae et Artis, the first in 1684, the second in 1686. The third volume was not issued until 1692.

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