Bernardino Telesio and the natural sciences in the Renaissance / / edited by Pietro Daniel Omodeo.

This volume is devoted to the natural philosopher Bernardino Telesio (1509-1588) and his place in the scientific debates of the Renaissance. Telesio’s thought is emblematic of Renaissance culture in its aspiration towards universality; the volume deals with the roots and reception of his vistas from...

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Superior document:Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science; volume29
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science; volume29.
Physical Description:1 online resource (301 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Foreword / Nuccio Ordine and Jürgen Renn
  • Note on Contributors
  • Introduction / Pietro Daniel Omodeo
  • The First of the Moderns: Telesio between Bacon and Galileo / Roberto Bondí
  • “Spiritus” and “anima a Deo immissa” in Telesio / Miguel Ángel Granada
  • Telesio, Aristotle, and Hippocrates on Cosmic Heat / Hiro Hirai
  • Heat and Moving Spirits in Telesio’s and Della Porta’s Meteorological Treatises / Arianna Borrelli
  • Telesian Controversies on the Winds and Meteorology / Oreste Trabucco
  • Telesio and the Renaissance Debates on Sea Tides / Pietro Daniel Omodeo
  • In Search of the True Nature of the Rainbow: Renewal of the Aristotelian Tradition in the Renaissance and the De Iride1 / Elio Nenci
  • A Conversation by Telesio: Sensualism, Criticism of Aristotle, and the Theory of Light in the Late Renaissance / Martin Mulsow
  • ‘Haereticorum more leges refellendi suas proponit’. At the Beginning of Telesian Censorship: an Annotated Copy of the 1565 Roman Edition / Alessandro Ottaviani
  • Reformation, Naturalism, and Telesianism: the Case of Agostino Doni / Riccarda Suitner
  • Between Myth and Reality: the Accademia Telesiana / Giulia Giannini
  • The Transformation of Final Causation: Telesio’s Theories of Self-Preservation and Motion / Rodolfo Garau
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.