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	The Galileo Project
		Porta's first book, published in 1585 as Magiae naturalis, constituted the basis of a twenty-book edition of the Magia naturalis published in 1589, which is his best-known work and the basis of his reputation.
		Della Porta presented a copy of his book on cryptography, De furtivis literarum, 1563, to Philip II, and he dedicated the third edition of the early version of Magia, 1561, to Philip.
		The documented meeting of Cesi and Porta in 1604 was followed by a respectful correspondence which culminated in the enrollment of Porta among the Lincei on 6 July 1610.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/porta.html (990 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Giambattista della Porta
		Della Porta was summoned to Rome by Pope Paul V.
		Della Porta also claimed to have invented the first telescope, however, he died while preparing the treatise ("De telescopiis")in support of his claim (his efforts were also overshadowed by Galileo Galilei's invention of the "telescopium" in 1609).
		A Catholic, della Porta was examined by the Inquisition in the years prior to 1578.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Giambattista_della_Porta (900 words)

	Giambattista della Porta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Della Porta founded the Ostiosi (Men of Leisure) an early scientific society, a condition of membership being to demonstrate a new discovery in the natural sciences.
		In a later edition of his Natural Magic, Della Porta described a Camera obscura with a convex lens; though he was not the inventor of this technical refinement, the popularity of his work helped spread knowledge of the device.
		Della Porta's works are well-represented in the Library of Sir Thomas Browne by no less than six titles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giambattista_della_Porta (468 words)

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		Della Porta travelled widely in Italy, France and Spain always returning to his estate near Naples where he was able to study in peace.
		Della Porta's work was wide ranging and, having studied refraction in De refractione, optices parte (1593), he claimed to be the inventor of the telescope although he does not appear to have constructed one before Galileo.
		Della Porta's major work is Magia naturalis (1558), in which he examines the natural world claiming it can be manipulated by the natural philosopher through theoretical and practical experiment.
	www.kameraarkasi.org /light/mucitler/porta.html (426 words)

	Adventures in CyberSound: della Porta, Giambattista
		Della Porta travelled widely in Italy, France and Spain always returning to his estate near Naples where he was able to study in peace.
		Della Porta's work was wide ranging and, having studied refraction in De refractione, optices parte (1593), he claimed to be the inventor of the telescope although he does not appear to have constructed one before Galileo.
		Della Porta founded the Accademia dei Segreti, which was later suppressed by the Inquisition, and in 1610 he took part in the reconstitution of the Accademia dei Lincei.
	www.acmi.net.au /AIC/PORTA_BIO.html (1593 words)

	napoli.com - Around Naples
		In days of della Porta, Naples was in the middle of the great Spanish rebuilding of the city under viceroy Toledo, but the city didn't even have a population of 200,000 (nevertheless, large for the time).
		Della Porta also started a private museum of natural science, full of specimens collected during his wide-ranging travels in Europe; it was an important innovation and became an imitated prototype.
		Giambattista della Porta was born in the village of Vico Equense on the Sorrentine peninsula and was well educated at home by his father and private tutors.
	www.napoli.com /english/viewarticolo.php?articolo=6695 (784 words)

	Giambattista della Porta Summary
		In 1603 della Porta joined in an effort to keep alive a society that was later to bloom as the Academy of the Lincei and that was to claim Galileo as a member.
		Giambattista della Porta was a natural philosopher whose ground-breaking development and research in optics was undermined by his belief in miracles and magic.
		The Academia Secretorum Naturae was suspected of dabbling in the Occult and Della Porta was summoned to Rome by Pope Paul V.
	www.bookrags.com /Giovanni_Battista_della_Porta (1606 words)

	"John Baptist Porta" - The Author and his Work
		Giambattista della (John Baptist) Porta (1535-1615), was a Neapolitan scholar of notable ability who had devoted great attention to the study of natural and physical science.
		Della Porta was denounced to Pope Paul V and called to Rome to explain the reports of witches' salves and necromantic arts.
		When practising medicine, Porta had many occasions to observe his patients, and to study their character and complexion; the results of this studious inquiry are laid down in his book Physiognomy, presenting a striking and convincing system, not to be lightly dismissed.
	homepages.tscnet.com /omard1/jportat3.html (5187 words)

	Giambattista della Porta - Definition, explanation
		Della Porta founded the Ostiosi (Men of Leisure) an early scientific society, a condition of membership being to demonstrate a new discovery in the natural sciences.
		Della Porta's works are well-represented in the Library of Sir Thomas Browne by no less than six titles.
		Giambattista della (John Baptist) Porta (1537?-1615), was a Neapolitan scholar of notable...
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/g/gi/giambattista_della_porta.php (524 words)

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		Giambattista Vico - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Giambattista Vico.
		Giambattista Vico or Giovanni Battista Vico (June 23, 1668—January 23, 1744) was a Neapolitan philosopher, historian, and jurist.
		The third and final age is the age of rationality, in which humanity declines into barbarie della reflessione — barbarism of reflection.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Giambattista-Vico.html (428 words)

	Experience and Experiment in Early Modern Europe -- Natural Magic
		Yet by experience, della Porta did not mean a kind of Baconian inductive empiricism, but the careful investigation and intuition of the magus who verified history and literature by his own experience.
		Flanking the page are two figures whose relationship is crucial to the mastery of the elements: on the right, a super-fertile and abundant Nature, and on the left, Art in the form of an artisan and his tools.
		At the bottom center is a portrait of della Porta, the sun shining on his face and the fire of a burning heart heating an alchemical vessel.
	www.folger.edu /html/folger_institute/experience/textures_grabner_porta.htm (673 words)

	Brecht and the Historical Galileo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Della Porta’s major scientific discovery was that all supposed “magical” phenomena are in reality the results of natural causes, and it was his radical stance not his science of occult qualities that got him into trouble with the Inquisition.
		Della Porta, who insisted that science can exploit occult powers, thus struck a blow at the Church’s monopoly over the supernatural, just as Galileo challenged the Church’s monopoly over interpreting the book of nature.
		For Della Porta, the pearls of science were too precious to be fed to swine; for Galileo, public confirmation of his discoveries was an essential component of the scientific method.
	www.nmsu.edu /~honors/brechtessay.html (1638 words)

	Art, Optics and History: New Light on the Hockney Thesis
		Della Porta was as famous as a playwright and impresario as for his investigations of secret natural processes and amusing mechanical contrivances.
		Della Porta, in the 1558 edition of his work, goes on to explain that anyone, even someone ignorant of painting, could draw the image of anything, if he only learned how to copy colours, by using this device.
		Della Porta, in 1558, suggested, for the first time, using the “early” Hockney technique: a concave mirror placed in front of the hole in the wall, without a lens.
	www.stanford.edu /group/shl/Eyes/hockney (7100 words)

	Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		• Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) della Porta (1535?–1615) was a natural philosopher and physician who made significant scientific contributions—he was first, for example, to recognize that light rays have a heating effect.
		However, his approach employed many principles now known to be invalid and in his pursuit of the ancient pseudo-science of physiognomy he tried to determine a man’s character from his outward resemblance to animals.
		The first is a portrait of Porta, and, while some of the rest show anatomical figures, the vast majority contrast the shapes of faces and bodies of animals and men.
	www.prbm.com /quotes/featured_book_A_Pair_of_Portas.shtml (936 words)

	The Optics Of Photography
		This simple instrument was the invention of Giambattista della Porta of Padua in 1569.
		It was Porta's knowledge of the powers of lenses that suggested to him the idea of placing an objective in the orifice of the dark box, so as to bring the image produced as nearly as possible to a fixed point, and thus to reduce the camera to small and portable dimensions.
		The lens Porta used was a plano-convex, the rounded face being turned to the ground-glass.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles16/photography-2.shtml (1289 words)

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		Della Porta was, in fact, seventy-seven at this time, but since even Hercules could hardly have begun such intellectual labors in the cradle, some scholars have been misled by his statement to think he was eighty-five when he died in 1615, a misconception carelessly launched by Prince Cesi in 1625.
		Such discrepancies and the equivocation of Della Porta’s own account are responsible for Gabrieli’s and Duchesne’s dating his birth 1538 and 1545, respectively, and for Guiscardi’s dating his death 1610.
		It is likely that Della Porta’s conflicting statements about his age were dictated less by forgetfulness or sheer inability to tell the truth than by his instinct for showmanship in presenting an image of himself to the world, and in part by the necessity of self-defense.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/nov15.html (3010 words)

	PORTA, Giambattista della., Della celeste Fisionomia ... libri sei. Nei quali ributta la vanita dell’astrologia ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		FIRST ITALIAN EDITION of Porta’s astrological work, in which, ‘after a prefatory denunciation of astrology, he proceeded to develop a theory of astral signatures that he had confirmed by experience and observation’ (DSB).
		Della celeste Fisionomia first appeared in Latin in 1603, shortly after the bull of Sixtus V was issued, forbidding the practice of astrology and divination, as well as the lecture and ownership of books on the subject.
		In 1603 he published at Naples six books on Celestial Physiognomy, in which the future could be easily conjectured from inspection of the human countenance, but in which also astrology was refuted and shown to be inane and imaginary.
	www.polybiblio.com /quaritch/SS196.html (518 words)

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		Giambattista Della Porta’s comedy La Trappolaria (an adaption of Plautus’ Pseudolus) was first printed at Bergamo in 1596, with subsequent editions issued at Vinegia (1597), Naples (1613) Ferrara (1615), and Venice (1626 and 1628).
		It is included in Gennaro Muzio’s Della commedie di Giovanbattista de la Porta Napolitano (Naples, 1726), but not in Vincenzo Spampanato’s incomplete edition of the comedies, Giambattista Della Porta.
		The reader interested in Della Porta and his comedies is referred to Louise George Clubb, Giambattista Della Porta, Dramatist (Princeton, 1965).
	www.philological.bham.ac.uk /trappolaria/intro.html (136 words)

	images of ‘de humana physiognomonia’ by giambattista della porta
		for della porta, the justification for the ‘quasi-divine science’ of
		della porta observes that the wide strongly defined mouth
		della porta founded the accademia dei segreti, which was later
	www.designboom.com /history/dellaporta.html (524 words)

	Porta photo album generator
		Giambattista della Porta (1535-1615) was the first to add a convex lens to the camera obscura.
		The SimpleViewer is written, and kindly licensed for use in Porta, by Felix Turner, Airtight Interactive.
		Porta's younger brother is Barnack; a program for learning about the intrinsic camera parameters and their effect on the hyperfocal distance, depth of field et cetera.
	www.stegmann.dk /mikkel/porta (513 words)

	Download Porta 0.78. Included Porta crack and serial (keygen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Born: 1 Nov 1535 in Vico Equense (near Naples), Italy Giambattista della Porta was educated at home where discussions on scientific topics frequently took.
		Originally, PORTA has been written by Thomas Christof and not by myself, and I still do not to give support for PORTA.
		Porta is a small program that turns a directory with JPEG/TIFF images into a neatly formatted web photo.
	www.globaledgeresources.com /cracks/19110-download-porta-0-78.html (251 words)

	Porta, Giacomo della -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		He was the chief Roman architect during the latter third of the 16th century and contributed to most of the major architectural projects undertaken in Rome during that period.
		The facade, which was the work of Giacomo della Porta, was added in 1575.
		One of the great artists of the early Italian Renaissance, Piero della Francesca painted religious works that are marked by their simple serenity and clarity.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9060949 (564 words)

	Natural Magick - Home Page
		Certainly Della Porta was one of the most famous men in Italy.
		The literate world knew the results of Della Porta's investigations, experiments, and speculation through his heterogeneous publications, for the earliest edition of his Magiae naturalis (Neapoli, 1558) to De aeris transmutationibus (Romae, 1610), the last of his scientific works printed in his lifetime.
		He wrote on cryptography, horticulture, optics, mnemonics, meteorology, physics, astrology, physiognomy, mathematics, and fortification, and when he died at eighty, he was preparing a treatise in support of his claim to the invention of the telescope....
	homepages.tscnet.com /omard1/jportat5.html (1218 words)

	Porta, Giambattista della -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		also called Giovanni Battista Della Porta Italian natural philosopher whose experimental research in optics and other fields was undermined by his credulous preoccupation with magic and the miraculous.
		The Italian scientist and writer Giambattista della Porta, late in the 16th century, demonstrated...
		Italian printer Giambattista Bodoni was one of the pioneers of modern book design in the late 18th century.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9060950?tocId=9060950 (734 words)

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		Rafael La Porta is professor of finance at the Tuck School.
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		Porta, Giambattista della Italian natural philosopher whose experimental research in optics and other fields was undermined by his credulous preoccupation
	www.directglobalinfo.com /drgi/porta.html (320 words)

	distillazionee
		Originally, the sun was the source of heat used to warm the distilling jar.
		He uses, perhaps for the first time, a coil that when immersed in a basin full of cold water, enables the alcoholic vapors to be cooled down more rapidly.
		It is right to add the word "perhaps", as the Neapolitan, Giambattista della Porta, in the previously mentioned work, "De Distillatione", states that the use of a coil in distillation was invented by the Arabs in the eighth or ninth century AD.
	www.cipriani.com /cipriani/Grappa/distillazionee.htm (1724 words)

	Associazione Italiana di Agrometeorologia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A partire da giugno 2007 sono interamente e gratuitamente scaricabili in formato PDF tutti i numeri della Rivista Italiana di Agrometeorologia da ottobre 2004 fino a febbraio 2006.
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