Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 524 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 908 g
Reihe: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions
The Parallel Worlds of Cesi and Galileo
Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 524 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 908 g
Reihe: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions
ISBN: 978-90-04-34231-6
Verlag: Brill
Set in the context of Counter-Reformation Rome, this book focuses on the twenty-year long relationship (1611-1630) between Galileo Galilei and Federico Cesi, the founder of the Academy of the Lynx-eyed. Contrary to the historiographical tradition, it demonstrates that the visions of Galileo and Cesi were not at all convergent. In the course of the events that led to the adoption of the anti-Copernican decree of 1616, Galileo realized that the Lynceans were not prepared to support his battle for freedom of thought. In addition to identifying the author of the anonymous denunciation of Galileo’s Assayer, Paolo Galluzzi offers an original reconstruction of the dynamics which culminated in the Church’s condemnation of the famous Tuscan scientist in 1633.
This book was originally published in Italian as Libertà di filosofare in naturalibus: I mondi paralleli di Cesi e Galileo (Storia dell’Accademia dei Lincei, Studi 4). Rome: Scienze e Lettere, Editore Commerciale, 2014.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Figures
Preface
Abbreviations
Note to the Reader
1 “The Secret of the Eyeglass”
A ‘Piece of Nonsense’?
Winning Over the Minds at the Collegio Romano
Second Class Telescopes
2 Parallel Convergences?
The Encounter
Mutant Lynxes in the Academy’s Menagerie
Initiation Ceremonies
3 Fluid Heavens
Wavering Certainties
Tycho or Telesio?
The Revival of Martianus Capella
Coup de théâtre
Storm Clouds Gather
4 Building a Friendship
New Spectacles in the Heavens
Books, Frontispieces, Theatres, Mirrors and Ladders
Embarrassing Omissions
The ‘Lincean Telescope’
5 The Copernican System versus Holy Scripture
The Spectre of Giordano Bruno
Celestial Animals
Questions of Character?
The League of Pigeons Launches the Attack
6 Images of Nature: Book or Theatre?
Prohibition ‘Is Also Done in Case of Doubt’
The Natural Desire for Knowledge
Simulated versus True Religion
Miraculous Rains
7 Confronting the New Scenario
Cesi-Bellarmine: Attempts at Dialogue
‘The Time Has Come to Grant Greater Freedom of Thought’
Kepler Enters the Scene
8 Relaunching Copernicanism
Ariosto versus Tasso
The Copernican System Overthrown?
A Delicate Balance
The Ebb and Flow of Fortune
Tommaso Caccini Back on Stage?
9 Metamorphosis of a Conjuncture: from ‘Marvellous’ to ‘Unfavourable’
Boating on the Lake
An Ambiguous Funeral
A Copernican Carriage
Calamitous Novelties
The Turncoat
Elephants and Mites
10 From the Heavens to the Bowels of the Earth
The Merging of the Two Projects
Up and Down the Ladder of Nature
Flowing Natures
Mother Earth
Botany for Metaphysicians?
The Fate of Cesi’s Fossil Wood Researches
11 The Immaculate Conception of the Barberini Bees
Honey as a Gift from the Heavens and the Earth
‘This Work Has Been Done for the Sole Purpose of Pleasing Patrons’
12 Plants as Compendium of Nature
Laying Out the Pages of the Book of Nature
Syntax, Painting, Theatre, Garden
A Galilean Syntaxis?
The Multiple Gaze of the Botanist
The Elusive Geometry of Plants
Glimmerings of Consciousness and Sexual Drives
The Bologna Stone Again
The Garden of Flavours
Food for the Mind
A Preformistic Conception?
Nature Was Not Created Once and for All
Names as Shadows of Things
Epilogue
‘It Has Been Impossible to Persuade Him to Make a Will’
Bibliography
Index of Names
