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| Autore principale: | Feingold, Mordechai.
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| Titolo: | An anatomy of a religio-scientific polemic : the Wilkins-Ross controversy revisited / Mordechai Feingold. |
| Abstract: | The Wilkins-Ross controversy has long been recognized as crucial for the diffusion of Copernicanism in England, as well as for the waning of Biblicism as an imposing authority in scientific matters. However, since scholars to date have found it sufficient to harvest the highpoints of the debate, certain salient features of the affair remain unexplored. This article will seek to throw these features into sharp relief through anexhaustive scrutiny of the religious part of the dispute. This should not only shed light on the intricacies of religio-scientific polemic during the first half of the seventeenth century, but reveal a hitherto unrecognized guiding principle behind Wilkins̉s ideological and rhetorical strategies. And in view of the fact that the Discovery and the Discourse were the first, and only, apologias for Copernicanism to be published in England, it is clear that Wilkins̉s shrewd stratagem rendered unnecessary any additional defense of the new astronomy. |
| Visionato in: | IMSS |
| In: |  Focus: the reception of Galileo in England and Scotland during the long seventeenth century. p. 51-90 |
| Discipline: | Religione e scienza--Persone. |
| Persone: | Wilkins, John, 1614-1672. Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654. Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642--Diffusione e fortuna. |
| Luoghi: | Inghilterra. |
| Keyword: | Keywords--Copernicanesimo. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XVII. |
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