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Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo - Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
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Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo - Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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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.
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