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Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo

Meredith K. Ray
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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.  
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Meredith K. Ray EAN: 9781137597694 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 289 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-05-28 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Europe, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Gender studies, gender groups, Astronomy, space and time

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      Meredith K. Ray is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Delaware, USA. She is the author of Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy and Writing Gender: Women’s Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance.      
      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.  
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Meredith K. Ray EAN: 9781137597694 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 289 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-05-28 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Europe, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Gender studies, gender groups, Astronomy, space and time

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      Meredith K. Ray is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Delaware, USA. She is the author of Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy and Writing Gender: Women’s Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance.      

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