Making sense of Day 1 of the Two New Sciences: Galileo’s Aristotelian-inspired agenda and his Jesuit readers |
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Authors: | Renée Jennifer Raphael |
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Institution: | College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History, Box 870212, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0212, USA |
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Abstract: | This study proposes an explanation for the choice of topics Galileo addressed in Day 1 of his 1638 Two New Sciences, a section of the work which has long puzzled historians of science. I argue that Galileo’s agenda in Day 1, that is the topics he discusses and the questions he poses, was shaped by contemporary teaching commentaries on Books 3 through 8 of Aristotle’s Physics. Building on the insights and approach of theorists of reader reception, I confirm this interpretation by examining the response of professors of natural philosophy at the Jesuit Collegio Romano to Galileo’s text. |
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Keywords: | Galileo Two New Sciences Aristotle Natural philosophy Jesuits University of Pisa |
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