Science and PRAXIS

Historical Cases of Political Epistemology
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-44518-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 99, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 740 g

Reihe: Intersections

This volume addresses questions in the history of science and allied disciplines, about the inseparable relation between science and politics. Cases presented in the book shed light on the political conditions, orientation and the consequences of science. Together, they articulate frames of inquiry in historical-political epistemology. Situated in the early modern historical context, the volume draws attention to different political factors which shaped scientific practices and their ideologies. Given the contested historiographies of the scientific revolution, the critical approach of this volume offers an invitation for further historical inquiries on the practices and politics of science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Omodeo, Pietro Daniel

Babu D, Senthil

Zittel, Claus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

Early Modern Political Epistemology – Introduction Senthil Babu D. and Pietro Daniel Omodeo

1 Calculation and Power: Engagement of Astronomers in Water-Management Projects in the Early Islamicate State Razieh S. Mousavi

2 Cultural-Political Agendas between Constantinople and Rome: the Controversies about the Science of the Stars in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium Alberto Bardi

3 Engineering the Flow of Coins: Money and Natural Philosophy in Oresme’s Writings Philippe Debroise and Mourtaza Chopra

4 The Nexus of Knowledge and Praxis in Leonardo Da Vinci from Marxism to the Anthropocene Pietro Daniel Omodeo

5 Crisis and Modernity – Memory and Oblivion: Early Modern Political Epistemologies in Niccolò Machiavelli and Giordano Bruno Giulio Gisondi

6 Towards a Political Epistemology of Abstraction: an Inquiry into the Case of Jost Bürgi’s Progress Tabulen (1620) Damian Moosbrugger

7 A Copernican Revolution in the Lagoon: When Galilean Mathematician Benedetto Castelli Tried to Solve the Hydrogeological Problems of Venice Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Senthil Babu D. and Sebastiano Trevisani

8 The Controversy on the Shape of the Earth: a Political-Epistemological Approach Marco Storni

9 Multiple Social Temporalities of the Scientific Revolution: a Bourdieusian Perspective Gerardo Ienna

10 Humanism and Anti-humanism: a Judgement on “Modernity” Jonathan Molinari

Index Nominum

Über Autor(innen)

Senthil Babu D., French Institute of Pondicherry, India, is a historian of science and mathematics; he coordinates research on Nature, Knowledge, Labour. He has published on social history of mathematical practices and is the author of Mathematics and Society (2022).

Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Ca’ Foscari University Venice, UNESCO Chair ‘Water Heritage and Sustainable Development’, Max Planck Partner Group ‘The Water City’ (MPI-GEA Jena). He has published monographs and articles on historical epistemology and early modern science, including Political Epistemology (2019).

Claus Zittel is Professor of German literature at the University of Stuttgart and since 2019 at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He is deputy director of the Stuttgart Research Center for Text Studies and Co-Director of the Ca’ Foscari Bembo-Lab.