Galileo's reading / Crystal Hall.

By:

Hall, Crystal, 1981- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781461953500
1461953502
9781107252318
1107252318
9781306212342
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9781107598904
1107598907
9781107652545
1107652545
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9781107703377
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9781107695269
1107672198
9781107672192

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Galileo's readingDDC classification:

195 23

LOC classification:

QB36.G2 H35 2013eb

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Contents:

Introduction -- The poetry of early modern philosophy -- Starry knights -- Sarsi and the Saracens -- Galileo's lesson on Don Chisciotte (1622-25) -- Shipwrecked, clueless, and Quixotic -- Conclusion.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The poetry of early modern philosophy -- Starry knights -- Sarsi and the Saracens -- Galileo's lesson on Don Chisciotte (1622-25) -- Shipwrecked, clueless, and Quixotic -- Conclusion.

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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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