Abstract
Despite the undisputed importance of the Accademia del Cimento for the process of seventeenth century institutionalisation of European science, the attempts to survey the activities of the Italian academy during its brief life have been, especially outside Italy, sporadic. After the publication of William E. K. Middleton’s masterpiece The experimenters: a study of the Accademia del Cimento (Baltimore 1971) no comparable publication has appeared. Relying on the exceptional documentary richness of the new edition of the Saggi di naturali esperienze (1667) published in 1942 by Abetti and Pagnini, Middleton added the publication of hitherto unknown documents he discovered at the Archivio di Stato of Florence, proposed a perceptive and innovative interpretation of them, paid renewed attention to the striking instrumental turn of the Florentine academy and, last but not least, provided a new English translation of the Saggi, the transactions of the experiments
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