Papers by Pietro Daniel Omodeo
Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 127: pp. 360–366, 2011
Es werden hier zwei Sonette astrologischen Inhaltes behandelt, die in Lyon um 1566 als Anhang von... more Es werden hier zwei Sonette astrologischen Inhaltes behandelt, die in Lyon um 1566 als Anhang von Castelvetros rarem Büchlein Lettera del dubioso academico veröffentlicht wurden. Im ersten klagt der neapolitanische Literat Cambi Importuni, dass seine amata trotz der günstigen Konstellation seine Liebe nicht erwidert. Im zweiten antwortet ihm der florentinische Astrologe Giuntini, dass die Sterne das menschliche Handeln nicht aufzwingen, sondern es lediglich beeinflussen. Sein Verständnis von Astrologie und Wissenschaft ist nämlich praxisorientiert: Die präzise Kenntnis des Himmels ermöglicht nicht die Entzifferung des Fatums, sondern die Anwendung der Naturgesetze zum eigenen Nutzen.
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Philological Encounters, 2018
Immediately following the publication of Copernicus’s major work, De revolutionibus orbium coeles... more Immediately following the publication of Copernicus’s major work, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (Nuremberg, 1543), the renowned Renaissance astronomer Erasmus Reinhold of Saalfeld (1511–1553) issued a Greek-and-Latin edition of the first book of Ptolemy’s Almagest with commentaries. It was entitled Ptolemaei Mathematicae constructionis liber primus (Wittenberg, in 1549). Employing images and textual commentaries, Reinhold aimed to make Ptolemy’s work accessible to his students at the University of Wittenberg. The commentary strengthened fundamental cosmological arguments presented in the first book of the Almagest, especially the central position of the Earth in the cosmos and its immobility. The Reinhold edition documents Renaissance commentary practices and their dynamic and transformative character. It is argued that the publication of Copernicus’s heliocentric theory motivated astronomy professors such as Reinhold to reassess Ptolemy’s cosmological arguments and analyze th...
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The British Journal for the History of Science
This essay deals with the cultural-political motivations behind the cosmological conceptions of t... more 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 philosophers who was most frequently scrutinized by the Inquisition, he was an important actor in Venetian cultural politics during the years of European religious conflict that culminated in the Thirty Years War. In those years, he was officially titled ‘protector’ of the multi-confessional German Nation of Artists, one of the largest groups of foreign students at the University of Padua, and had to act as mediator in cases of conflict. His efforts to keep teaching free from religious concerns is reflected by his commitment to pursue philosophical and cosmological inquiries without engaging in revealed theology. In particular, his strict adherence to Aristotelian cosmology proved to be at odds with central Christian dogmas as it relinquished, among o...
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This special issue of the Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas takes its origin from a c... more This special issue of the Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas takes its origin from a call for paper on the theme: “Erasmian Science: The Influence of Erasmus of Rotterdam on Early-Modern Science”. Is there any disciplinary field or scholarly context of the past that can be conveniently indicated as (an) ‘Erasmian Science’? Can this expression, as some sort of historiographic construct and instrument, direct the investigation of historians of scientific culture to realms and relationships that have so far escaped their consideration? This are the challenges we are putting forward in this Introduction , offering some background and suggestions as to the feasibility of more thorough studies of ‘Erasmian Science’.
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This opinion paper discusses some of the challenges and opportunities that earth scientists face ... more 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 technologies for geoenvironmental analysis in the context of sustainable development. The paper also points out a “data imbalance” effect, a key issue in the analysis of environmental evolution and of geosphere-anthroposphere interactions in the long-term. In connection with this, it stresses the importance of geoenvironmental information which can be derived from environmental humanities and related disciplines, such as history and archeology. In this context, the complexities and potentialities of a dialogue between earth sciences and the humanities are outlined.
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HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, 2020
This contribution interprets the intertwined issues of science, epistemology, society, and politi... more 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 scientist positions taken by the Bolshevik leader Nikolai Bukharin in Historical Materialism (1921) and the conference communication he delivered at the International Congress of History of Science and Technology in London in 1931. Gramsci did not avoid, at least implicitly, engaging with the theses of Lenin’s Materialism and Empiriocriticism (1909). Gramsci’s reception of these Russian positions was twofold: on the one hand, he agreed with the centrality of praxis (and politics) for a correct assessment of the meaning of epistemological positions; on the other hand, he disagreed with the reduction of the problem of epistemology to the dichotomy of materialism and idealism at the expense of any consideration of the ideological dimension of science.
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The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution, 2022
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This presentation of Roger Cooter’s and Claudia Stein’s recent volume ( Writing History in the Ag... more This presentation of Roger Cooter’s and Claudia Stein’s recent volume ( Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine , New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013) is divided into two sections. The first part will offer an overview of their most challenging views. The second consists in a series of questions related to the claims of the book. Roger Cooter kindly agreed to reply to them.
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This paper deals with an unpublished Renaissance document preserved in the Archives of Turin, rel... more This paper deals with an unpublished Renaissance document preserved in the Archives of Turin, relevant to the history of the local university. It is an anonymous report, written in 1593, relative to the reasons for opposing the Jesuits’ attempt to obtain the teaching of philosophy, and to transfer this teaching from the university to their college. The pedagogical, cultural, and political arguments brought forward by the anonymous author of the document are here considered against the background of the European expansion of the Jesuit Order and of its schools. The case of Turin is compared to polemics that affected the Universities of Paris and Padua, involving academic, civil and religious authorities. Thus, a wider overview of the conflicts between traditional universities and the emerging Jesuit educational system is offered. Moreover, the Turin quarrel helps pinpoint the irreconcilability between Jesuit Scholasticism and late Humanism as an important aspect of these contrasts. A...
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Duncan Liddel (1561-1613), 2016
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Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Dec 31, 2014
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Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2021
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The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution, 2022
It has long been recognized that astronomy was a catalyst of the Scientific Revolution, spurring ... more 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 richer than was thought a generation ago, and there is much to be learned about the origins of the field, particularly in the sixteenth century, when humanist activity brought forth a dazzling array of philosophical possibility—from reconsiderations of Aristotle and Islamicate commentary to the revival of Platonic, Epicurean, and Stoic worldviews. Celestial physics offered some of the most heated arguments for or against the Aristotelian cosmos, with controversial attempts to account for astronomical observation by integrating various causal innovations. This chapter will focus on a number of themes that mark celestial physics and cosmological speculation in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries: the order of the celestial bodies and their nature, the relationship between celestial and terrestrial things, the question of celestial animism or vitalism, and the status of the divine in celestial nature.
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Early modern geopraxis in Venice, 2019
Essential bibliography on early modern geopraxis in Venice
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Carocci, 2022
Il libro introduce a temi, dibattiti e correnti fondamentali del variegato campo dell'epistemolog... more Il libro introduce a temi, dibattiti e correnti fondamentali del variegato campo dell'epistemologia storica ripercorrendo le querelles intellettuali occorse all'intersezione fra epistemologia e storia della scienza. Gli autori propongono un'inedita lettura della tradizionale narrazione del processo di genesi e sviluppo di questo campo di ricerca e un innovativo quadro interpretativo delle principali problematiche teoriche che lo caratterizzano, gettando luce sui suoi più recenti orizzonti metodologici. Massimiliano Badino insegna Filosofia della scienza e Big data epistemology all'Università degli Studi di Verona.
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