Science and Praxis : Historical Cases of Political Epistemology (Intersections)

Omodeo, Pietro Daniel (EDT)/ Babu D., Senthil (EDT)/ Zittel, Claus (EDT)

Brill（2025/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 318 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004445185

Full Description

This volume addresses questions in the history of science and allied disciplines, about the inseparable relation between science and politics. Cases presented in the book shed light on the political conditions, orientation and the consequences of science. Together, they articulate frames of inquiry in historical-political epistemology. Situated in the early modern historical context, the volume draws attention to different political factors which shaped scientific practices and their ideologies. Given the contested historiographies of the scientific revolution, the critical approach of this volume offers an invitation for further historical inquiries on the practices and politics of science.

Contents

List of Figures

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

Early Modern Political Epistemology - Introduction

 Senthil Babu D. and Pietro Daniel Omodeo

1 Calculation and Power: Engagement of Astronomers in Water-Management Projects in the Early Islamicate State

 Razieh S. Mousavi

2 Cultural-Political Agendas between Constantinople and Rome: the Controversies about the Science of the Stars in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium

 Alberto Bardi

3 Engineering the Flow of Coins: Money and Natural Philosophy in Oresme's Writings

 Philippe Debroise and Mourtaza Chopra

4 The Nexus of Knowledge and Praxis in Leonardo Da Vinci from Marxism to the Anthropocene

 Pietro Daniel Omodeo

5 Crisis and Modernity - Memory and Oblivion: Early Modern Political Epistemologies in Niccolò Machiavelli and Giordano Bruno

 Giulio Gisondi

6 Towards a Political Epistemology of Abstraction: an Inquiry into the Case of Jost Bürgi's Progress Tabulen (1620)

 Damian Moosbrugger

7 A Copernican Revolution in the Lagoon: When Galilean Mathematician Benedetto Castelli Tried to Solve the Hydrogeological Problems of Venice

 Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Senthil Babu D. and Sebastiano Trevisani

8 The Controversy on the Shape of the Earth: a Political-Epistemological Approach

 Marco Storni

9 Multiple Social Temporalities of the Scientific Revolution: a Bourdieusian Perspective

 Gerardo Ienna

10 Humanism and Anti-humanism: a Judgement on "Modernity"

 Jonathan Molinari

Index Nominum