Galileo Gazzettante

In late 1604, physician and future canon Leonardo Tedeschi sent Galileo Galilei a treatise on the New Star, a subject often connected with news because of the traditional association of a related phenomenon, the comet, with plague, famine, war, and regime change. Leonardo avoided all such speculatio...

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Published inEvening News pp. 101 - 134
Main Author Reeves, Eileen
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc 03.04.2014
University of Pennsylvania Press
Subjects
Allusion
Arts
Astronomical instrumentation
Astronomical objects
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Copernicanism
Corrective lenses
Cosmological philosophy
Eyeglasses
Health sciences
History of science
Literary devices
Literary genres
Literature
Medical sciences
Medical technology
Metaphysics
Observational astronomy
Philosophy
Physical sciences
Poetry
Selenology
Solar activity
Solar physics
Stars
Stellar physics
Sunspots
Telescopes
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Summary:In late 1604, physician and future canon Leonardo Tedeschi sent Galileo Galilei a treatise on the New Star, a subject often connected with news because of the traditional association of a related phenomenon, the comet, with plague, famine, war, and regime change. Leonardo avoided all such speculations. His tract began with the pious Aristotelian dictum that it was better and more agreeable to have even superficial and imperfect knowledge of superior and noble matters than fuller and more solid acquaintance with things here below, and he maintained that the new star, far from generating “killings, plagues, famines, horrible winds and
ISBN:9780812245745
0812245741
DOI:10.9783/9780812209488.101