Articoli rivista
Anno XXXIV - n.2 - aprile/giugno 2001 L’occhio e il cielo
This article on vision discusses the structure of the human eye, its resolving power, its coordination with the brain, peripheral vision and other details of how we detect moving and still objects. […]
Anno XXXIX - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 2006 L’opera scientifica di Ettore Majorana: cenni
This article celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Italian theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana, probably the brightest Italian theoretician of the XX century. We outline the significance of some of his publications and we recall his life through letters, […]
Anno XLIII - n.3 - luglio/settembre 2010 l ritmo musicale nell’esperimento del piano inclinato di Galileo
Adding a musical background to Galileo’s experiment in which a ball rolls along an inclined plane shows how Galileo might have obtained accurate results with the aid of his musical ear. In this historical context the students organize their measurements with unusual (but modernised) procedures. […]