Bernardino Telesio and the Natural Sciences in the Renaissance

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-35263-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Latin, Band 29, 285 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science

This volume is devoted to the natural philosopher Bernardino Telesio (1509-1588) and his place in the scientific debates of the Renaissance. Telesio’s thought is emblematic of Renaissance culture in its aspiration towards universality; the volume deals with the roots and reception of his vistas from an interdisciplinary perspective ranging from the history of philosophy to that of physics, astronomy, meteorology, medicine, and psychology. The editor, Pietro Daniel Omodeo and leading specialists of intellectual history introduce Telesio’s conceptions to English-speaking historians of science through a series of studies, which aim to foster our understanding of a crucial early modern author, his world, achievement, networks, and influence.

Contributors are Roberto Bondì, Arianna Borrelli, Rodolfo Garau, Giulia Giannini, Miguel Ángel Granada, Hiro Hirai, Martin Mulsow, Elio Nenci, Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Nuccio Ordine, Alessandro Ottaviani, Jürgen Renn, Riccarda Suitner, and Oreste Trabucco.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bondì, Roberto

Borrelli, Arianna

Garau, Rodolfo

Giannini, Giulia

Granada, Miguel Ángel

Hirai, Dr Hiro

Mulsow, Martin

Nenci, Elio

Ordine, Nuccio

Ottaviani, Alessandro

Renn, Jürgen

Suitner, Riccarda

Trabucco, Oreste

Omodeo, Pietro Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Note on Contributors

Introduction

Pietro Daniel Omodeo

1 The First of the Moderns: Telesio between Bacon and Galileo

Roberto Bondí

2 “Spiritus” and “anima a Deo immissa” in Telesio

Miguel Ángel Granada

3 Telesio, Aristotle, and Hippocrates on Cosmic Heat

Hiro Hirai

4 Heat and Moving Spirits in Telesio’s and Della Porta’s Meteorological Treatises

Arianna Borrelli

5 Telesian Controversies on the Winds and Meteorology

Oreste Trabucco

6 Telesio and the Renaissance Debates on Sea Tides

Pietro Daniel Omodeo

7 In Search of the True Nature of the Rainbow: Renewal of the Aristotelian Tradition in the Renaissance and the De Iride

Elio Nenci

8 A Conversation by Telesio: Sensualism, Criticism of Aristotle, and the Theory of Light in the Late Renaissance

Martin Mulsow

9 ‘Haereticorum more leges refellendi suas proponit’. At the Beginning of Telesian Censorship: an Annotated Copy of the 1565 Roman Edition

Alessandro Ottaviani

10 Reformation, Naturalism, and Telesianism: the Case of Agostino Doni

Riccarda Suitner 202

11 Between Myth and Reality: the Accademia Telesiana

Giulia Giannini

12 The Transformation of Final Causation: Telesio’s Theories of Self-Preservation and Motion

Rodolfo Garau

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pietro Daniel Omodeo is a professor of Historical Epistemology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and PI of the ERC endeavor EarlyModernCosmology (Horizon 2020, GA 725883). He is the author of Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance (Brill, 2014).