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 an interdisciplinary perspective ranging from the history of philosophy to that of physics, astronomy, meteorology, medicine, and psychology. The editor, Pietro Daniel Omodeo and leading specialists of intellectual history introduce Telesio’s conceptions to English-speaking historians of science through a series of studies, which aim to foster our understanding of a crucial early modern author, his world, achievement, networks, and influence.
Author(s): Pietro Daniel Omodeo (ed.)
Series: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science, 29
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 302
City: Leiden
Foreword / Nuccio Ordine and Jürgen Renn vii
Note on Contributors xii
Introduction / Pietro Daniel Omodeo 1
1. The First of the Moderns: Telesio between Bacon and Galileo / Roberto Bondí 13
2. “Spiritus” and “anima a Deo immissa” in Telesio / Miguel Ángel Granada 33
3. Telesio, Aristotle, and Hippocrates on Cosmic Heat / Hiro Hirai 51
4. Heat and Moving Spirits in Telesio’s and Della Porta’s Meteorological Treatises / Arianna Borrelli 66
5. Telesian Controversies on the Winds and Meteorology / Oreste Trabucco 96
6. Telesio and the Renaissance Debates on Sea Tides / Pietro Daniel Omodeo 116
7. In Search of the True Nature of the Rainbow: Renewal of the Aristotelian Tradition in the Renaissance and the "De Iride" / Elio Nenci 146
8. A Conversation by Telesio: Sensualism, Criticism of Aristotle, and the Theory of Light in the Late Renaissance / Martin Mulsow 167
9. ‘Haereticorum more leges refellendi suas proponit’. At the Beginning of Telesian Censorship: an Annotated Copy of the 1565 Roman Edition / Alessandro Ottaviani 191
10. Reformation, Naturalism, and Telesianism: the Case of Agostino Doni / Riccarda Suitner 202
11. Between Myth and Reality: the "Accademia Telesiana" / Giulia Giannini 217
12. The Transformation of Final Causation: Telesio’s Theories of Self-Preservation and Motion / Rodolfo Garau 231
Bibliography 253
Index 283
