The Life and Ideas of Evangelista Torricelli

With an Edition of the Academic Discourses

Paolo Palmieri (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

388 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-4764-9 (ISBN)

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The book explores the life and work of Evangelista Torricelli, a 17th-century Italian mathematician and physicist. The text discusses Torricelli's membership in the esteemed Accademia della Crusca, highlighting his fusion of scientific ideas with rhetorical elegance. It also explores the search for Torricelli's remains, revealing a complex historical and cultural context that prevented his final wishes from being fulfilled. The book further examines Torricelli's work on geometrical spirals and the challenges he faced in defining the essence of this shape. It delves into Torricelli's philosophical views, including his critiques of conventional norms, his exploration of the interplay between logic and imagination, and his utopian vision of a society based on simplicity and harmony. Additionally, the book analyzes Torricelli's unique approach to science and his appreciation for the beauty and power of mathematics. Most importantly, the book presents the first integral, annotated English translation of Torricelli's Academic Discourses, a masterpiece of Baroque science and literature. The book will be of interest to academics in the humanities and social sciences, historians of early modern European culture and philosophers of science, and to the learned public.

Paolo Palmieri holds degrees in engineering and philosophy and a PhD from the University of London, UK. He has been teaching graduate seminars and undergraduate classes on many subjects focusing on the history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, for more than twenty years. His main areas of research include the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the history of early modern mathematics, the philosophy of psychoacoustics, phenomenology and pedagogy. He has published numerous articles in academic journals and scholarly books, and has contributed chapters to edited volumes. His recent publications include: 'A translation of Luigi Paolucci's On Birdsong. Phenomenology, animal psychology and biology', 'Akoumena: A natural philosophy of hearing, Hermes and the telescope. In the crucible of Galileo's lifeworld', and '"Don't disturb my masterpiece!": Towards an ecology of learning'. His current research aims at bridging the divide between the sciences and the humanities.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.06.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-0364-4764-2 / 1036447642
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-4764-9 / 9781036447649
Zustand	Neuware