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The Lynx and the Telescope : the Parallel Worlds of Federico Cesi and Galileo.

The association between Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and Federico Cesi (1585-1630, founder of the Accademia dei Lincei, or Academy of the Lynxes), and how much their philosophies agreed or were different.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2017.
Colección:Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a The Lynx and the Telescope -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Note to the Reader -- "The Secret of the Eyeglass" -- A 'Piece of Nonsense'? -- Winning Over the Minds at the Collegio Romano -- Second Class Telescopes -- Parallel Convergences? -- The Encounter -- Mutant Lynxes in the Academy's Menagerie -- Initiation Ceremonies -- Fluid Heavens -- Wavering Certainties -- Tycho or Telesio? -- The Revival of Martianus Capella -- Coup de théâtre -- Storm Clouds Gather -- Building a Friendship -- New Spectacles in the Heavens -- Books, Frontispieces, Theatres, Mirrors and Ladders -- Embarrassing Omissions -- The 'Lincean Telescope' -- The Copernican System versus Holy Scripture -- The Spectre of Giordano Bruno -- Celestial Animals -- Questions of Character? -- The League of Pigeons Launches the Attack -- Images of Nature: Book or Theatre? -- Prohibition 'Is Also Done in Case of Doubt' -- The Natural Desire for Knowledge -- Simulated versus True Religion -- Miraculous Rains -- Confronting the New Scenario -- Cesi-Bellarmine: Attempts at Dialogue -- 'The Time Has Come to Grant Greater Freedom of Thought' -- Kepler Enters the Scene -- Relaunching Copernicanism -- Ariosto versus Tasso -- The Copernican System Overthrown? -- A Delicate Balance -- The Ebb and Flow of Fortune -- Tommaso Caccini Back on Stage? -- Metamorphosis of a Conjuncture: from 'Marvellous' to 'Unfavourable' -- Boating on the Lake -- An Ambiguous Funeral -- A Copernican Carriage -- Calamitous Novelties -- The Turncoat -- Elephants and Mites -- From the Heavens to the Bowels of the Earth -- The Merging of the Two Projects -- Up and Down the Ladder of Nature -- Flowing Natures -- Mother Earth -- Botany for Metaphysicians? -- The Fate of Cesi's Fossil Wood Researches -- The Immaculate Conception of the Barberini Bees. 
505 8 |a Honey as a Gift from the Heavens and the Earth -- 'This Work Has Been Done for the Sole Purpose of Pleasing Patrons' -- Plants as Compendium of Nature -- Laying Out the Pages of the Book of Nature -- Syntax, Painting, Theatre, Garden -- A Galilean Syntaxis? -- The Multiple Gaze of the Botanist -- The Elusive Geometry of Plants -- Glimmerings of Consciousness and Sexual Drives -- The Bologna Stone Again -- The Garden of Flavours -- Food for the Mind -- A Preformistic Conception? -- Nature Was Not Created Once and for All -- Names as Shadows of Things -- Epilogue -- 'It Has Been Impossible to Persuade Him to Make a Will' -- Bibliography -- Index of Names. 
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