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View article: Cristina Brito. <i>Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa</i>
Cristina Brito. <i>Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa</i> Open
Review of: Brito, C. (2023). Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa . Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 270 pp.
View article: Preface
Preface Open
View article: The Anthropocene Waterscapes of Venice
The Anthropocene Waterscapes of Venice Open
This handbook is an interdisciplinary introduction to the Anthropocene, the epoch in which the combined impact of humans and their technologies on the Earth system is comparable to that of natural forces. To more concretely consider the hi…
View article: Political Epistemology of Venice’s Hydrology
Political Epistemology of Venice’s Hydrology Open
This lesson highlights the political dimension of science-based transformation of the Venice waterscape. Although the history of the territory and the hydrological basin connecting the Alps to the Mediterranean See depended on forms of kno…
View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
This handbook comprises a series of interventions, in which scholars with different backgrounds and disciplinary affiliations take Venice as a prism through which to observe the historical unfolding of the human-nature relationship from mu…
View article: Hobbes and the Cavendish Circle: Intellectual Networks in the Seventeenth Century
Hobbes and the Cavendish Circle: Intellectual Networks in the Seventeenth Century Open
An introduction to the special issue on Hobbes and the Cavendish Circle: Intellectual Networks in the Seventeenth Century.
View article: Arguing about the stars on the southern side of the confessional divide
Arguing about the stars on the southern side of the confessional divide Open
Arguing about the stars has rarely been more controversial and dangerous than in the early modern period in Europe, especially in Catholic countries, in a time when old and novel conceptions of the heavens, planetary models and theories of…
View article: “The Sea Has Waves, The Fula Has Cows”: Moving Waters, Labour and Capital in Anthropocene Senegal
“The Sea Has Waves, The Fula Has Cows”: Moving Waters, Labour and Capital in Anthropocene Senegal Open
In times of climate crisis, water has become a crucial resource of environmental justice and geopolitics, but its scarcity is socially constructed. It depends on socio-economic structures, cultural politics, and the sciences that are mobil…
View article: Disputing the Animation of the Heavens in Rome Around 1616: Between Animism and Natural Exegesis
Disputing the Animation of the Heavens in Rome Around 1616: Between Animism and Natural Exegesis Open
View article: The Invisible Fisherman: The Economy of Water Knowledge in Early Modern Venice
The Invisible Fisherman: The Economy of Water Knowledge in Early Modern Venice Open
This chapter addresses the question of the link between erudition and fishermen’s practical knowledge in the Renaissance, with Italy and Venice as its main areas of inquiry. It begins with some preliminary remarks on the importance of prac…
View article: Cesare Cremonini's non-theological cosmology: a contribution to Padua's secular culture in times of wars of religion
Cesare Cremonini's non-theological cosmology: a contribution to Padua's secular culture in times of wars of religion Open
This essay deals with the cultural-political motivations behind the cosmological conceptions of the Padua Aristotelian Cesare Cremonini (1550–1631). A defender of the interests of the university against Jesuit teachings, and one of the phi…
View article: The Distant Action of the Heavens in Girolamo Borri’s Tidal Theory
The Distant Action of the Heavens in Girolamo Borri’s Tidal Theory Open
The Aristotelian professor of natural philosophy and courtier at the Medici in Florence, Girolamo Borri, developed a theory based on heat to explain the tidal motions of the sea. In his dialogues on this phenomenon, he deemed that tides fo…
View article: Celestial Physics
Celestial Physics Open
It has long been recognized that astronomy was a catalyst of the Scientific Revolution, spurring on deeply consequential speculation about the nature of the cosmos and its physical principles. Yet the history of celestial physics is far ri…
View article: 6. Funding Stone
6. Funding Stone Open
Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Charles T. Wolfe discuss the latter’s book Lire le matérialisme (Lyon: ENS éditions, 2020, 292 p., ISBN 9791036202377 et 9791036202391, http://doi.org/10.4000/books.enseditions.15838) and the prospects of a cosmolo…
View article: Heavenly Animation as the Foundation for Fracastoro’s Homocentrism: Aristotelian-Platonic Eclecticism beyond the School of Padua
Heavenly Animation as the Foundation for Fracastoro’s Homocentrism: Aristotelian-Platonic Eclecticism beyond the School of Padua Open
This essay deals with the ensouled cosmology propounded by the physician and philosopher Girolamo Fracastoro. His Homocentrica sive de stellis (1538), which propounded an astronomy of concentric spheres, was received and discussed by schol…
View article: Earth Scientists and Sustainable Development: Geocomputing, New Technologies, and the Humanities
Earth Scientists and Sustainable Development: Geocomputing, New Technologies, and the Humanities Open
This opinion paper discusses some of the challenges and opportunities that earth scientists face today in connection with environmental problems. It focuses on aspects that are related to the role of geocomputational approaches and new tec…
View article: On the nomenclatural status of some species of Haplotaxidae (Clitellata) from Guinea
On the nomenclatural status of some species of Haplotaxidae (Clitellata) from Guinea Open
Our attention was recently drawn to a problem of homonymy with Villiersia d’Orbigny, 1837, a nudibranch genus, posed by Villiersia Omodeo, 1987, an oligochaete genus of the family Haplotaxidae described from the Segea cave near Kindia, Gui…
View article: Bacon’s Anthropocene
Bacon’s Anthropocene Open
The current predicament, marked by an unprecedented environmental crisis and novel debates on the anthropic-technological transformation of the earth-system, calls for a reassessment of the historical-epistemological question of the entang…
View article: Rethinking Leonardo for the Anthropocene
Rethinking Leonardo for the Anthropocene Open
The aesthetic grace of Leonardo da Vinci’s depictions of nature—the backgrounds of his master paintings and the meticulous drawings in the preserved codices—has a significance that goes beyond mere visual pleasure. The Renaissance’s natura…
View article: ‘Jesuit Science’ and Cultural Hegemony: A Political-Historiographical Critique
‘Jesuit Science’ and Cultural Hegemony: A Political-Historiographical Critique Open
The claim and concern of this article is that today ‘Jesuit Science’ only prima facie refers to a historical problem, that is, the investigation and comprehension of scientific debates involving scholars belonging to the Jesuit Order durin…
View article: The Struggle for Objectivity: Gramsci’s Historical-Political Vistas on Science against the Background of Lenin’s Epistemology
The Struggle for Objectivity: Gramsci’s Historical-Political Vistas on Science against the Background of Lenin’s Epistemology Open
This contribution interprets the intertwined issues of science, epistemology, society, and politics in Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks as a culturalist approach to science that does not renounce objectivity. Gramsci particularly criticized the …
View article: Foreword to Early Modern Geological Agency
Foreword to Early Modern Geological Agency Open
This thematic issue responds to the growing demand for ‘more history’ on the part of the earth sciences and environmental politics. The impending climate crisis—the iconic images of which range from the melting poles to the drowning water-…
View article: The Disputational Culture of Renaissance Astronomy: Johannes Regiomontanus’s “An Terra Moveatur An Quiescat”
The Disputational Culture of Renaissance Astronomy: Johannes Regiomontanus’s “An Terra Moveatur An Quiescat” Open
Summary This article discusses Regiomontanus's Disputation on the Motion of the Earth (An Terra moveatur an quiescat, Joannis de Monte Regio disputatio). Given Regiomontanus's ties with late fifteenth-century Vienna and Padua, his text was…
View article: Amerigo Vespucci: The Historical Context of His Explorations and Scientific Contribution
Amerigo Vespucci: The Historical Context of His Explorations and Scientific Contribution Open
This book offers a new reconstruction of Amerigo Vespucci’s navigational and scientific endeavours in their historical context. The author argues that all of the manuscripts or texts that Vespucci left to posterity are reliable and true, e…
View article: FOREWORD TO EARLY MODERN GEOLOGICAL AGENCY
FOREWORD TO EARLY MODERN GEOLOGICAL AGENCY Open
This thematic issue responds to the growing demand for ‘more history’ on the part of the earth
\nsciences and environmental politics. The impending climate crisis—the iconic images of which
\nrange from the melting poles to the drowning wa…
View article: Science in Court Society
Science in Court Society Open
Giovanni Battista Benedetti is counted as one of the most brilliant mathematical and philosophical minds of the late Italian Renaissance. However, the theoretical and historical relevance of his work is still obscure in many respects. This…
View article: Foundations of Physics
Foundations of Physics Open
View article: The Subalpine Environment
The Subalpine Environment Open
View article: Political Epistemology : The Problem of Ideology in Science Studies
Political Epistemology : The Problem of Ideology in Science Studies Open
View article: Bernardino Telesio and the Natural Sciences in the Renaissance
Bernardino Telesio and the Natural Sciences in the Renaissance Open
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…