Galileo's Reading
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Galileo's Reading

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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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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781107597525
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Galileo’s Reading
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. chapter one The poetry of early modern philosophy
  9. chapter two Starry knights
  10. chapter three Sarsi and the Saracens
  11. chapter four Galileo’s lesson on Don Chisciotte (1622–1625)
  12. chapter five Shipwrecked, clueless, and quixotic
  13. Conclusion
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index