On 12 April 1907, the well-known physicist Augusto Righi gave a lecture-demonstration for the opening of the Institute of Physics of the University of Bologna and engaged the audience with the notion of “electrical constitution of matter”. The paper reconstructs Righi’s explanation and shows how the subject stimulated interesting philosophical debates at the dawn of the Century

“And nothing else exists to constitute the Universe'': Augusto Righi and the ultimate physical reality at the dawn of the 20th Century

Eugenio Bertozzi
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2021

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On 12 April 1907, the well-known physicist Augusto Righi gave a lecture-demonstration for the opening of the Institute of Physics of the University of Bologna and engaged the audience with the notion of “electrical constitution of matter”. The paper reconstructs Righi’s explanation and shows how the subject stimulated interesting philosophical debates at the dawn of the Century
2021
Eugenio Bertozzi
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