The Lynx and the Telescope: The Parallel Worlds of Cesi and Galileo

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AuthorPaolo Galluzzi
PublisherBrill
PublishedOct 02 2017
Book FormatHardcover
ISBN-139789004342316
Dimensions9.4 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches
Weight 2.1 pounds
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CategoriesScience > History
LanguageEnglish

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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.

Author Bio

Paolo Galluzzi is the Director of the Museo Galileo (Istituto e Museo Nazionale di Storia della Scienza) in Florence, and a member of the Royal Academy of Science in Stockholm and Socio Nazionale of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

He is the author of more than 250 publications on the scientists and engineers of the Renaissance, on aspects of science during the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution, on scientific terminology, on Galileo and his school, on the history of European scientific academies, and on the historiography of science. He has also created numerous innovative digital publications and tools to promote the public understanding of crucial issues of the history of science and technology.

Source: Columbia University - Italian Academy