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Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy

By Meredith K. Ray (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2016
ISBN
978-1-137-59769-4, 978-1-137-59603-1
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-59603-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1489401 bytes)
Series
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Edition
1
Pages
XII, 98\110
Time added
2016-07-20 04:00:00
Astrophysics and Cosmology; Poetry and PoeticsEuropean Literature; Early Modern/Renaissance Lite

Description

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.

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