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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.
Senthil Babu D., French Institute of Pondicherry, India, is a historian of science and mathematics; he coordinates research on Nature, Knowledge, Labour. He has published on social history of mathematical practices and is the author of Mathematics and Society (2022).
Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Caâ Foscari University Venice, UNESCO Chair âWater Heritage and Sustainable Developmentâ, Max Planck Partner Group âThe Water Cityâ (MPI-GEA Jena). He has published monographs and articles on historical epistemology and early modern science, including Political Epistemology (2019).
Claus Zittel is Professor of German literature at the University of Stuttgart and since 2019 at the Caâ Foscari University of Venice. He is deputy director of the Stuttgart Research Center for Text Studies and Co-Director of the Caâ Foscari Bembo-Lab.
Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Caâ Foscari University Venice, UNESCO Chair âWater Heritage and Sustainable Developmentâ, Max Planck Partner Group âThe Water Cityâ (MPI-GEA Jena). He has published monographs and articles on historical epistemology and early modern science, including Political Epistemology (2019).
Claus Zittel is Professor of German literature at the University of Stuttgart and since 2019 at the Caâ Foscari University of Venice. He is deputy director of the Stuttgart Research Center for Text Studies and Co-Director of the Caâ Foscari Bembo-Lab.
List of Figures
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
Early Modern Political Epistemology â Introduction
âSenthil Babu D. and Pietro Daniel Omodeo
1 Calculation and Power: Engagement of Astronomers in Water-Management Projects in the Early Islamicate State
âRazieh S. Mousavi
2 Cultural-Political Agendas between Constantinople and Rome: the Controversies about the Science of the Stars in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium
âAlberto Bardi
3 Engineering the Flow of Coins: Money and Natural Philosophy in Oresmeâs Writings
âPhilippe Debroise and Mourtaza Chopra
4 The Nexus of Knowledge and Praxis in Leonardo Da Vinci from Marxism to the Anthropocene
âPietro Daniel Omodeo
5 Crisis and Modernity â Memory and Oblivion: Early Modern Political Epistemologies in Niccolò Machiavelli and Giordano Bruno
âGiulio Gisondi
6 Towards a Political Epistemology of Abstraction: an Inquiry into the Case of Jost Bürgiâs Progress Tabulen (1620)
âDamian Moosbrugger
7 A Copernican Revolution in the Lagoon: When Galilean Mathematician Benedetto Castelli Tried to Solve the Hydrogeological Problems of Venice
âPietro Daniel Omodeo, Senthil Babu D. and Sebastiano Trevisani
8 The Controversy on the Shape of the Earth: a Political-Epistemological Approach
âMarco Storni
9 Multiple Social Temporalities of the Scientific Revolution: a Bourdieusian Perspective
âGerardo Ienna
10 Humanism and Anti-humanism: a Judgement on âModernityâ
âJonathan Molinari
Index Nominum
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
Early Modern Political Epistemology â Introduction
âSenthil Babu D. and Pietro Daniel Omodeo
1 Calculation and Power: Engagement of Astronomers in Water-Management Projects in the Early Islamicate State
âRazieh S. Mousavi
2 Cultural-Political Agendas between Constantinople and Rome: the Controversies about the Science of the Stars in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium
âAlberto Bardi
3 Engineering the Flow of Coins: Money and Natural Philosophy in Oresmeâs Writings
âPhilippe Debroise and Mourtaza Chopra
4 The Nexus of Knowledge and Praxis in Leonardo Da Vinci from Marxism to the Anthropocene
âPietro Daniel Omodeo
5 Crisis and Modernity â Memory and Oblivion: Early Modern Political Epistemologies in Niccolò Machiavelli and Giordano Bruno
âGiulio Gisondi
6 Towards a Political Epistemology of Abstraction: an Inquiry into the Case of Jost Bürgiâs Progress Tabulen (1620)
âDamian Moosbrugger
7 A Copernican Revolution in the Lagoon: When Galilean Mathematician Benedetto Castelli Tried to Solve the Hydrogeological Problems of Venice
âPietro Daniel Omodeo, Senthil Babu D. and Sebastiano Trevisani
8 The Controversy on the Shape of the Earth: a Political-Epistemological Approach
âMarco Storni
9 Multiple Social Temporalities of the Scientific Revolution: a Bourdieusian Perspective
âGerardo Ienna
10 Humanism and Anti-humanism: a Judgement on âModernityâ
âJonathan Molinari
Index Nominum
This volume addresses readers interested in history of science, early modernity, epistemology and political theory. It addresses students and scholars interested in moving beyond traditional divides to develop an interdisciplinary political approach. Keywords: Scientific practices, Ideology of science, Scientific Revolution, Islamic Science, Astronomy, Hydrology, Byzantine science, Monetary theory, Geology, Art of memory, Computation, Algorithms, Mathematical tables, Scientific controversies, Scientific academies, Survey, Historical metrology, Scientific abstraction.