Academia Secretorum Naturae
Academia Secretorum Naturae ( Italian Accademia dei Segreti ) was the first or one of the first scientific academies in Europe .
The academy was founded in Naples in 1560 by the Italian polymath Giambattista della Porta . Originally he wanted to bring other scholars closer to his views of his work Magia naturalis (1558) and to explore the secrets of nature. The condition of membership was to possess or represent new knowledge or views in the natural sciences. There was also unconditional access to or membership of the academy. The members called themselves Otiosi ( idlers or men with leisure ).
In the course of time probably after 1570, when exactly is unknown, there was an ecclesiastical investigation by the Inquisition and Giambattista della Porta was received by Pope Gregory XIII. cited to Rome to undergo a hearing. The academy was founded in 1578 by order of Pope Gregory XIII. resolved as there was a suspicion of proximity to magic and sorcery. But there were no personal or ecclesiastical consequences for Giambattista della Porta. His work on cryptology entitled De furtivis literarum notis , which he published in 1563, was also created during the time of the academy . The camera obscura has also been further developed over the years.
Web links
- Detailed biography of Giambattista della Porta ( Memento of July 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl-Heinz Schlote , Chronology of Natural Sciences: The Path of Mathematics and Natural Sciences from the Beginnings into the 21st Century. Verlag Harri Deutsch, 2002, page 154 ISBN 978-3-8171-1610-2
- ^ Walter Höflechner : Center for the History of Science of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz
- ^ David Charles Lindberg, Katharine Park: Early Modern Science . In: The Cambridge History of Science . tape 3 . Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [and a.] 2006, ISBN 0-521-57244-4 , pp. 269 ( limited preview in Google Book search).