What it meant to be a Cimento academician

In a letter to Tozzetti in July 1759, Giovanni Batista Clemente Nelli indicated that from the names mentioned in the official Cimento diary, the only members of the Accademia, in addition to Borelli and Viviani, appeared to be the following: Alessandro Segni, the group’s secretary at the time of the Cimento’s foundation in 1657; Lorenzo Magalotti, Segni’s successor to the secretarial position in 1660; Paolo del Buono and Candido del Buono, two Tuscan mathematicians and brothers; Antonio Uliva, the mathematician and Calabrian activist against Spanish rule in southern Italy; and finally, the only two Aristotelian sympathisers in the Cimento, Alessandro Marsili and Carlo Rinaldini. To this list, Tozzetti added Francesco Redi, a former student of medicine at the University of Pisa, whose achievements in natural philosophy certainly did not go unnoticed in Tuscany, but who appeared to make very few contributions to the Cimento’s meetings. Tozzetti also mentioned Carlo Dati, a Florentine disciple of Galileo, a loyal Court member, and a natural philosopher also deeply interested in the disciplines of mathematics and astronomy.