03904nam 22007695 450 991025525270332120251030102018.09781137596031113759603110.1057/978-1-137-59603-1(CKB)3710000000729401(EBL)4716436(DE-He213)978-1-137-59603-1(MiAaPQ)EBC4716436(PPN)251872785(Perlego)3490942(EXLCZ)99371000000072940120160528d2016 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMargherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy /by Meredith K. Ray1st ed. 2016.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (110 p.)Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,2634-6443Description based upon print version of record.9781137597694 1137597690 Includes bibliographical references and index.I. Introduction -- II. Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy -- Sarrocchi and Galileo in Rome -- Science and the Scanderbeide -- Sarrocchi’s Scanderbeide and Galileo’s “Enemy Eye” -- The Controversy Over Galileo’s “Medicean Stars” -- Reading the Stars -- Diverging Paths -- III. Letters of Margherita Sarrocchi and Galileo (With Three Related Letters) .This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women’s place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, Scanderbeide (1623), and famed astronomer, Galileo Galilei. Their correspondence, undertaken soon after the publication of Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius, reveals how Sarrocchi approached Galileo for his help revising her epic poem, offering, in return, her endorsement of his recent telescopic discoveries. Situated against the vibrant and often contentious backdrop of early modern intellectual and academic culture, their letters illustrate, in miniature, that the Scientific Revolution was, in fact, the product of a long evolution with roots in the deep connections between literary and scientific exchanges. .Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,2634-6443European literatureEuropean literatureRenaissance, 1450-1600SexLiteratureHistory and criticismAstronomyPoetryEuropean LiteratureEarly Modern and Renaissance LiteratureGender StudiesLiterary HistoryAstronomy, Cosmology and Space SciencesPoetry and PoeticsEuropean literature.European literatureSex.LiteratureHistory and criticism.Astronomy.Poetry.European Literature.Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.Gender Studies.Literary History.Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences.Poetry and Poetics.851.5Ray Meredith Kauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1058277Sarrocchi Margheritaapproximately 1560-1617.1158949Galilei Galileo1564-1642.4160BOOK9910255252703321Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo2895355UNINA