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36 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 205.
century, Paolo Romano, Leonardo Sormano, Bavio Pandinello.
At present there are Gian. Battista Foggini, Giuseppe Mazzoli,
Giuseppe Mazza, Girolamo Odamo, and Giuseppe Piamontini.
There are several families of sculptors from Rovetta.
Architecture was cultivated by Bramante, Baroccio, Serlio,
Sansovino, Fontana ; these all derived their art from Michael
Angelo Buonarotti, who possessed it in a wonderful manner.
First of all, however, it was revived by Leon Battista Alberti
and Brunellesca. At the present day it has been filled with
new ideas chiefly by Borromini ; at the present day there are
also Carlo Fontana and Foggini.
July 15. The Transactions of the Academy of Sciences
at Bologna are printed by Lelio de Vulpi, under this title:
De Bononiensi scientiarum et artium instituto, atque Academiæ
commentarii, Bononiæ, 1731. The first part contains the history
of the Academy ; a list of its members, and what sciences
were investigated by it. The second part contains the trans
actions from the beginning of the Academy to the year 1724;
it is divided into nine sections, all of which have respect to
Natural Philosophy, and comprise Chemistry, Anatomy, Medi
cine, Physics, Mechanics , Analysis , Geography, Astronomy,
Meteorology ; Bologna, 4to.
Something is worth noting in the letters of Poleni of
Padua to some of the learned: 1. He often saw Mercury in
the solar disc ; upon entering it was first of an oval, and after
wards of a round form ; which is a sign that it is surrounded
by an atmosphere. The Parisians, however, maintain that
Mercury has been perfectly round even upon entering. Mer
cury appeared on the sun as a minute spot, equal to the size
of ten lines. 2. Concerning the velocity of water which is
bursting out. Through an opening of three lines in the dia
meter, from the height of thirteen feet, 691 cubic inches of
water flow out in one minute ; upon being calculated as a
cylinder, the water is equivalent to a cylinder of 1173 feet,
the base of which has a diameter of three lines. If, however,
the body falls in a vacuum from the height of thirteen feet,
on account of the velocity which it acquires, it can run over
* See Bibliothèque Italique, Vol. XI, p. 8.
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