| The Lynx and the Telescope: The Parallel Worlds of Cesi and Galileo Contributor(s): Galluzzi (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004342311 ISBN-13: 9789004342316 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $165.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | History - Business & Economics | Organizational Behavior - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Series: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.4" (2.10 lbs) 540 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Set in the context of Counter-Reformation Rome, this book focuses on the twenty-year long relationship (1611-1630) between Galileo Galilei and Federico Cesi, the founder of the Academy of the Lynx-eyed. Contrary to the historiographical tradition, it demonstrates that the visions of Galileo and Cesi were not at all convergent. In the course of the events that led to the adoption of the anti-Copernican decree of 1616, Galileo realized that the Lynceans were not prepared to support his battle for freedom of thought. In addition to identifying the author of the anonymous denunciation of Galileo's Assayer, Paolo Galluzzi offers an original reconstruction of the dynamics which culminated in the Church's condemnation of the famous Tuscan scientist in 1633. This book was originally published in Italian as Libert di filosofare in naturalibus: I mondi paralleli di Cesi e Galileo (Storia dell'Accademia dei Lincei, Studi 4). Rome: Scienze e Lettere, Editore Commerciale, 2014. |