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A Renaissance Architecture of Power
Urbino, Rome, Florence, Milan, Ferrara... but also Mantua and Imola, Carpi and Saluzzo, Naples and Sicily: a collection of case studies on the Renaissance renewal of Italian court palaces from a comparative perspective.
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Retrying Galileo, 1633–1992
In 1633, at the end of one of the most famous trials in history, the Inquisition condemned Galileo for contending that the Earth moves and that the Bible is not a scientific authority. Galileo's condemnation set off a controversy that has acquired a fascinating life of its own and that continues to this day. This absorbing book is the first to examine the entire span of the Galileo affair from his condemnation to his alleged rehabilitation by the Pope in 1992. Filled with primary sources, many translated into English for the first time, Retrying Galileo will acquaint readers with the historical facts of the trial, its aftermath and repercussions, the rich variety of reflections on it throughout history, and the main issues it raises.
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The Case of Galileo
The \"Galileo Affair\" has been the locus of various and opposing
appraisals for centuries: some view it as an historical event
emblematic of the obscurantism of the Catholic Church, opposed
a priori to the progress of science; others consider it a
tragic reciprocal misunderstanding between Galileo, an arrogant and
troublesome defender of the Copernican theory, and his theologian
adversaries, who were prisoners of a narrow interpretation of
scripture. In The Case of Galileo: A Closed Question?
Annibale Fantoli presents a wide range of scientific,
philosophical, and theological factors that played an important
role in Galileo's trial, all set within the historical progression
of Galileo's writing and personal interactions with his
contemporaries. Fantoli traces the growth in Galileo Galilei's
thought and actions as he embraced the new worldview presented in
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres , the
epoch-making work of the great Polish astronomer Nicolaus
Copernicus.
Fantoli delivers a sophisticated analysis of the intellectual
milieu of the day, describes the Catholic Church's condemnation of
Copernicanism (1616) and of Galileo (1633), and assesses the
church's slow acceptance of the Copernican worldview. Fantoli
criticizes the 1992 treatment by Cardinal Poupard and Pope John
Paul II of the reports of the Commission for the Study of the
Galileo Case and concludes that the Galileo Affair, far from being
a closed question, remains more than ever a challenge to the church
as it confronts the wider and more complex intellectual and ethical
problems posed by the contemporary progress of science and
technology. In clear and accessible prose geared to a wide
readership, Fantoli has distilled forty years of scholarly research
into a fascinating recounting of one of the most famous cases in
the history of science.
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Setting aside all authority : Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the science against Copernicus in the age of Galileo
\"Setting Aside All Authority is an important account and analysis of seventeenth-century scientific arguments against the Copernican system. Christopher M. Graney challenges the long-standing ideas that opponents of the heliocentric ideas of Copernicus and Galileo were primarily motivated by religion or devotion to an outdated intellectual tradition, and that they were in continual retreat in the face of telescopic discoveries. Graney calls on newly translated works by anti-Copernican writers of the time to demonstrate that science, not religion, played an important, and arguably predominant, role in the opposition to the Copernican system. Anti-Copernicans, building on the work of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, were in fact able to build an increasingly strong scientific case against the heliocentric system at least through the middle of the seventeenth century, several decades after the advent of the telescope. The scientific case reached its apogee, Graney argues, in the 1651 New Almagest of the Italian Jesuit astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli, who used detailed telescopic observations of stars to construct a powerful scientific argument against Copernicus. Setting Aside All Authority includes the first English translation of Monsignor Francesco Ingoli's essay to Galileo (disputing the Copernican system on the eve of the Inquisition's condemnation of it in 1616) and excerpts from Riccioli's reports regarding his experiments with falling bodies; 'Christopher M. Graney's Setting Aside All Authority makes a fine contribution to the history of science and especially the history of astronomy. The case Graney presents for the rationality of denying Copernicanism, as late as the mid-seventeenth century, is cogent, and he presents a good deal of novel historical material that urges a reevaluation of a major figure--Riccioli. The book will interest not only historians but also philosophers of science, and scientists in the relevant specialties (astronomy, physics) together with their students at both the undergraduate and graduate level'--Peter Barker, University of Oklahoma\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Building the New Man
Discusses several fundamental themes of the comparative history of eugenics: the importance of the Latin eugenic model; the relationship between eugenics and fascism; the influence of Catholicism on the eugenic discourse and the complex links between genetics and eugenics. It examines the Liberal pre-fascist period and the post-WW2 transition from fascist and racial eugenics to medical and human genetics. As far as fascist eugenics is concerned, the book provides a refreshing analysis, considering Italian eugenics as the most important case-study in order to define Latin eugenics as an alternative model to its Anglo-American, German and Scandinavian counterparts. Analyses in detail the nature-nurture debate during the State racist campaign in fascist Italy (1938–1943) as a boundary tool in the contraposition between the different institutional, political and ideological currents of fascist racism.
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Renaissance Art & Science @ Florence
The creativity of the human mind was brilliantly displayed during the Florentine Renaissance when artists, mathematicians, astronomers, apothecaries, architects, and others embraced the interconnectedness of their disciplines.
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