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Galileo Ferraris. The rivolutionary scientist. Lo scienziato rivoluzionario
A comic book about Galileo Ferraris — Un fumetto su Galileo Ferraris
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It is said that there was only one thing that could keep the scientist Ferraris away from his laboratory — music! So he would put on his jacket and rush off either to the theatre or to the concert halls of Turin.
Passionate from an early age and a talented pianist capable of reading difficult scores, as a lover of the arts he would probably be satisfied with this comic book text recounting his professional life.
Brilliant theorist, fine experimentalist and excellent teacher, Galileo Ferraris was a legendary scientist with a unique personality who revolutionised science with his insights in the second half of the 19th century.
It was an extraordinary life that took him from a small farming village in the province of Vercelli, Livorno Vercellese, today Livorno Ferraris, to world prominence, from Europe to America.
Today, however, he could be counted among the forgotten scientists, even though the second most popular device in the world, after the mobile phone, is his machine: the rotating magnetic field. What is it?
