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.
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This volume explores the entwinement of science and philosophy in the conceptions of the Renaissance thinker Bernardino Telesio. His vistas are considered from an interdisciplinary perspective bringing together the histories of philosophy, physics, astronomy, meteorology, medicine, and psychology.
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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
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ISBN
9789004352636
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Brill
Vekt
610 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Biografisk notat

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).