Father Giambattista of Rimini in 1743, and Father Teodoro of San Marino in 1744.

Giambattista della Porta, a Neapolitan scholar in the 16th century, examined and studied the natural world and saw how it could be manipulated.

Some went as far as to say that the technology invented by man achieves what divine intervention achieved in nature and human intervention in history. Hannah Arendt, Le concept de l apos histoire, in La crise de la culture Huit exercises de pensée politique, Paris, Gallimard, 1972, p. 79 Commentaire du livre de Giambattista Vico, La méthode des études de notre temps, Naples, 1908.