In this paper, I suggest that research results from the history and philosophy of modern science provide a valuable methodological contribution for investigating early modern experimental philosophy and employ them to reassess the contribution of Giovan Battista Della Porta to its development. In modern science, the production of experimental knowledge is dependent on a complex array of communication strategies involving verbal terminology, diagrams, standardized instruments, and measurement units. Historians and philosophers have investigated the constitutive connection between such strategies and the phenomena scientists study in laboratories, showing how the two often co‐evolved during the 19th and 20th centuries. Della Porta took an important first step towards the development of such methods by transforming the traditional recipe format into a strategy for mutually connecting, conceptualizing, and sharing observations made in experiments involving similar, but not identical, instruments and procedures. I use as a case study the changing manner in which he used recipes for presenting and connecting a number of pneumatic experiences from the first edition of Natural Magic (1558) until his meteorology treatise On Transmutations of Air (1610). In modern terms, those experiences can be interpreted as demonstrating the air's expansion and contraction with heat or pressure. However, today's notions of air pressure, density, and volume did not exist around 1600 and the verbal, visual, and quantitative means of expressing them had yet to be created. Della Porta did not create the modern notions, but he contributed to their emergence in a substantial way with his discussions of those pneumatic experiences. Della Porta's innovation may be described as the creation of a new epistemic genre, but it was not of a purely literary character, since the recipes also shaped the instruments and procedures they described, transforming them into new means of knowledge production in experimental philosophy.

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Giovan Battista Della Porta对气动现象的构造及其将食谱用作启发式工具的用法

在本文中，我认为现代科学的历史和哲学研究成果为研究早期现代实验哲学提供了宝贵的方法论贡献，并用它们来重新评估Giovan Battista Della Porta对其发展的贡献。在现代科学中，实验知识的产生取决于一系列复杂的交流策略，这些策略涉及口头术语，图表，标准化仪器和度量单位。历史学家和哲学家已经研究了这种策略与科学家在实验室研究的现象之间的本质联系，显示了两者在19世纪和20世纪经常如何共同发展。Della Porta通过将传统配方格式转换为相互联系，概念化和共享在涉及相似但不完全相同的仪器和程序的实验中观察到的策略，迈出了开发此类方法的重要的第一步。我以案例研究为例，他使用了一些方法来改变食谱，从第一版开始，他使用食谱来展示和联系许多气动经验。自然魔术（1558），直到他的气象论文《空气的Trans变》（1610）。用现代的话来说，这些经历可以解释为表明空气在热或压力下的膨胀和收缩。但是，今天的气压，密度和体积的概念在1600年左右就不复存在，并且还没有建立表达它们的语言，视觉和定量手段。德拉·波塔（Della Porta）并没有创造出现代的概念，但是他通过对这些气动经验的讨论在很大程度上促进了它们的出现。德拉·波塔（Della Porta）的创新可被描述为一种新的认知流派的创造，但它不具有纯粹的文学特征，因为这些食谱还塑造了它们所描述的工具和程序，将它们转化为实验哲学中知识生产的新手段。