Galileo''s Reading

Name: Galileo''s Reading
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107652545
Price: 6200 KES
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ISBN: 9781107652545

by Crystal Hall

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1107652545

ISBN-13 9781107652545

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 1st, 2016

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 378 grams

Dimensions 15.40 x 23.80 x 1.60 cms

Product Classification: Literary theory Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 History of ideas History of ideas

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Galileo's Reading makes new claims about the role of epic poetry in shaping the methodologies and expressions of early modern philosophy. The book traces the engagement of Galileo (1564–1642) with a wide range of writers, both literary and scientific, and analyzes Galileo's library including his annotations in his own books.

Galileo (1564–1642) incorporated throughout his work the language of battle, the rhetoric of the epic, and the structure of romance as a means to elicit emotional responses from his readers against his opponents. By turning to the literary as a field for creating knowledge, Galileo delineated a textual space for establishing and validating the identity of the new, idealized philosopher. Galileo's Reading places Galileo in the complete intellectual and academic world in which he operated, bringing together, for example, debates over the nature of floating bodies and Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso, disputes on comets and the literary criticism of Don Quixote, mathematical demonstrations of material strength and Dante's voyage through the afterlife, and the parallels of his feisty note-taking practices with popular comedy of the period.

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