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The Scientific Revolution
In this first book-length historiographical study of the Scientific Revolution, H. Floris Cohen examines the body of work on the intellectual, social, and cultural origins of early modern science. Cohen critically surveys a wide range of scholarship since the nineteenth century, offering new perspectives on how the Scientific Revolution changed forever the way we understand the natural world and our place in it. Cohen's discussions range from scholarly interpretations of Galileo, Kepler, and Newton, to the question of why the Scientific Revolution took place in seventeenth-century Western Europe, rather than in ancient Greece, China, or the Islamic world. Cohen contends that the emergence of early modern science was essential to the rise of the modern world, in the way it fostered advances in technology. A valuable entrée to the literature on the Scientific Revolution, this book assesses both a controversial body of scholarship, and contributes to understanding how modern science came into the world.
Letters, documents and photographs related to Leo S. Olschki, 1910-2002
Letters, documents and photographs related to Leo S. Olschki and his rare book firm and publishing house in Florence. Includes: [Letter (photocopy), 1910?] / Gabriele D'Annunzio -- [Letter] 1983 nov. 30 [to] Barney Rosenthal / Alec [Olschki] -- [Letter, carbon] 1985 luglio 3 / [unknown writer] -- [Letter] 1985 ott. 18 [to] Bernard Rosenthal / Alec [Olschki] -- [Letter] 1984 genn. 21 [to] Alex [Olschki] / Barney [Rosenthal] -- [Letter] 1986 giugno 5 [to Alessandro Olschki] / Barney [Rosenthal] -- [Letter, 19]91 luglio 3 [to Bernard Rosenthal?] / Alec [Olschki] -- [Letter (copy, e-mail) 20]02 nov. 25 [to Bernard Rosenthal] / Alessandro Olschki. -- Minima personalia / Alessandro Olschki, 1991 apr. 14 -- 2 documents related to and on Leo S. Olschki letterhead. -- 3 photographs including one of Gabriele D'Annunzio and one of the wall behind Alessandro Olschki's desk, sep. 2004 -- 3 photocopies of articles on Leo S. Olschki, 1933-1991 -- 1 newspaper clipping. 30 oct. 1946.
What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies
"All political action has . . . in itself a directedness towards knowledge of the good: of the good life, or of the good society. For the good society is the complete political good. If this directedness becomes explicit, if men make it their explicit goal to acquire knowledge of the good life and of the good society, political philosophy emerges. . . . The theme of political philosophy is mankind's great objectives, freedom and government or empire—objectives which are capable of lifting all men beyond their poor selves. Political philosophy is that branch of philosophy which is closest to political life, to non-philosophic life, to human life."—From "What Is Political Philosophy?" What...
Galileo in Context
This 2001 text explores the intellectual, cultural and social contexts that substantially shaped Galilean science.
Music and Science in the Age of Galileo
Music and Science in the Age of Galileo features twelve new essays by leading specialists in the fields of musicology, history of science, astronomy, philosophy, and instrument building that explore the relations between music and the scientific culture of Galileo's time. The essays take a broad historical approach towards understanding such topics as the role of music in Galileo's experiments and in the scientific revolution, the musical formation of scientists, Galileo's impact on the art and music of his time, the scientific knowledge of instrument builders, and the scientific experiments and cultural context of Galileo's father, Vincenzo Galilei. This volume opens up new areas in both mu...
Professing Classics
Thirteen original essays study the mobility of Classicists sensu latiore, including philologists and archaeologists, between the Anglophone and Germanophone worlds between the mid-19th C. and 2020, concentrating on the North Atlantic Triangle. American classicists "rushed across the seas" for doctoral work in Germany (the great Hellenist Gildersleeve, the American circle around Wölfflin, the historian of classical scholarship Gudeman). The archaeologist Schliemann’s dubious profiteering in America is exposed. Two contemporary scholars describe how they moved to enrich their career horizons (Ludwig, Shanzer). More, however, sadly, were forced to seek asylum from 20th century Fascism and anti-Semitism (Bieler, Brendel, Fraenkel). One (Gudeman) emigrated from America to Germany in the early Nazi period and later died in a labor camp. The lasting prominence of one novelist (Wallace) and one critic with a dark past (Pöschl), whose influential works crossed the sea, are also evaluated. The volume includes work in academic sociology, archival and epistolographical detective-work, in life writing, transmission-reception, and the history of scholarship.
