%0 Journal Article
%T L¡¯EDIFICIO DELLA SCIENZA ¨¨ L¡¯OPERA DELLE MENTI ASSOCIATE
							| Istituto Lombardo - Accademia di Scienze e Lettere - Incontri di Studio
%A Andrea Silvestri
%J Istituto Lombardo - Accademia di Scienze e Lettere - Incontri di Studio
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%R https://doi.org/10.4081/incontri.2018.349
%X The title is a quote taken by Cattaneo¡¯s lessons in Lugano, as BarbaraBoneschi indicates in her Introduzione of the innovative critical edition of the Lecturesof Cattaneo at Istituto Lombardo; but the same concepts are slightly modified in thefirst Lecture. Starting from the Cattaneo¡¯s statement that the origin of every scientificconstruction stays inside a society, rather in many societies differently active into timeand space, my work identifies and contextualizes the presence, into the Lectures, oftechnical ¡°arts¡± (as Carlo Lacaita describes into his masterful opening essay, Cattaneo modern philosopher), not subordinate but coordinate with ¡°social arts¡±, ¡°mental arts¡±and ¡°fine arts¡±. Mathematics, physics, thermodynamics, chemistry, astronomy, optics,electrical and magnetic phenomena, agriculture, geology, metallurgy, hydraulic andnautical ¡°arts¡±, architecture are the most mentioned of the ¡°polytechnic¡± disciplines,referring with this adjective to the modern polytechnic schools, forthcoming or just founded in Italy at the time of Lectures; but referring also to the disciplines debated inthe review ¡°Il Politecnico¡±, disciplines that had always significance in Cattaneo¡¯s ideasand works
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