Galileo''s Reading
by
Crystal Hall
Book Details
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
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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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