Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo

Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Meredith K. Ray (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

98 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-95577-0 (ISBN)

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This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women’s place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, Scanderbeide (1623), and famed astronomer, Galileo Galilei. Their correspondence, undertaken soon after the publication of Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius, reveals how Sarrocchi approached Galileo for his help revising her epic poem, offering, in return, her endorsement of his recent telescopic discoveries. Situated against the vibrant and often contentious backdrop of early modern intellectual and academic culture, their letters illustrate, in miniature, that the Scientific Revolution was, in fact, the product of a long evolution with roots in the deep connections between literary and scientific exchanges.

Meredith K. Ray is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Delaware, USA. She is the author of Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy and Writing Gender: Women’s Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance.

I. Introduction.- II. Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy.- Sarrocchi and Galileo in Rome.- Science and the Scanderbeide.- Sarrocchi’s Scanderbeide and Galileo’s “Enemy Eye”.- The Controversy Over Galileo’s “Medicean Stars”.- Reading the Stars.- Diverging Paths.- III. Letters of Margherita Sarrocchi and Galileo (With Three Related Letters)

Erscheinungsdatum	26.06.2018
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 98 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-349-95577-9 / 1349955779
ISBN-13	978-1-349-95577-0 / 9781349955770
Zustand	Neuware