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.
Temas:
Galilei, Galileo, > 1564-1642.
Cesi, Federico, > 1585-1630.
Cesi, Federico, > 1585-1630
Galilei, Galileo, > 1564-1642
Science, Renaissance.
Science > Philosophy > History.
Astronomy > History.
Sciences de la Renaissance.
Astronomie > Histoire.
Astronomy
Science > Philosophy
Science, Renaissance
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • 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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