Raffaella Santi
Pages 106-114
DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085211
ABSTRACT
“You imagine where you cannot experiment”… John Tyndall is a 19th century Irish scientist and natural philosopher. For him, scientific imagination is the faculty that enables scientists “to transcend the boundaries of the sense” and to connect the visible with the invisible – by forming mental images of phenomena, and tracing links among them. This article reconstructs his theory of scientific imagination, focusing on the central passages found in his works.