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| Autore principale: | Gualandi, Andrea.
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| Titolo: | Astronomia strumentale e ortodossia cosmologica nel secolo delle comete : le osservazioni del 1652 di Giovanni Domenico Cassini e Giovanni Battista Riccioli / Andrea Gualandi. |
| Abstract: | Comets were, in the XVII century, a challenge for philosophical and cosmological ideas; between the ages of Galileo and Newton the description of their motion was the key to understanding their nature, turning them into decisive evidence for the new celestial mechanics. In order to enrich the reconstruction of this debate, giving back importance to the central decades of the century, this paper deems Bologna an ideal milieu: Academies, the University and Jesuits created an intriguing network of scientific interests and relationships. Giovanni Domenico Cassini and Giovanni Battista Riccioli's observations of the 1652 comet are particularly important: for the former (at the beginning of his activity in the Studium) the comet would ever after constitute a crucial test in perfecting observational techniques and in developing a new approach for describing celestial motions; the latter, during a period of scientific splendour of the College of Jesuits, saw comets as an occasion for a last-ditch defence of the orthodox system of the World set forth in his Almagestum Novum, through a profound confutation of Tychonic conquests. |
| Visionato in: | IMSS |
| In: |  Galilaeana A. 5 (2008), p. 245-265 |
| Discipline: | Comete e Meteore--Studi. |
| Persone: | Cassini, Giovanni Domenico, 1625-1712. Riccioli, Giovanni Battista, 1598-1671. |
| Luoghi: | Bologna. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XVII. |
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