Galilæana. Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Science

22/01/2025

Call for Abstracts | Mathematical Thought in the Renaissance and the Genesis of Modern Mathematics

Galilaeana invites scholars in the history of mathematics and researchers in the field of Renaissance science to submit contributions for a monographic issue on “Mathematical Thought in the Renaissance and the Genesis of Modern Mathematics”.

Further information at:

Call for abstracts | Mathematical Thought in the Renaissance and the Genesis of Modern Mathematics 2025-01-17 edited by Riccardo Bellé and Beatrice Sisana Submission deadlines: 15 March 2025 (abstract) | 15 November 2025 (article)Publication date: April 2026 Journal section: Focus [read the section...

04/11/2024

Galilaeana 21/2 is out!

Read the full issue for free at https://gal-studies.museogalileo.it/index.php/galilaeana/issue/view/4.

The new issue features a focus on “The art of memory and the sciences in the Early Modern age” edited by Tommaso Ghezzani and Clément Poupard, with contributions by Tommaso Ghezzani, Annarita Angelini, Marco Matteoli, Lucia Delaini, Ute Frietsch, Koji Kuwakino, and Clément Poupard.

Tommaso Ghezzani Theatres of memory and anatomical theatres: Notes on Giulio Camillo, rhetoric, magic and anatomy between 16th and 17th century PDF

30/04/2024

Galileana 1/2024 out now!

The new issue features a focus on Galileo and Literature with contributions by Massimo Bucciantini, Crystal Hall, Giuseppe Patota, Edward Chappell, Francesco Brancato, Rosanna Lavopa, and Alejo Stark, plus a multi-authors paper by Duccio Tognini, Elisa Spettoli Caselli, Elettra Capecchi, and Gioia Innocenti.

Read it in open access on the Galilaeana website:

Duccio Tognini, Elisa Spettoli Caselli, Elettra Capecchi; Gioia Innocenti Assonances and dissonances: Vincenzio Galilei’s and his father Galileo’s rhymes PDF (Italiano)

15/11/2023

Luís Miguel Carolino The burden of Galileo's controversy: the Jesuit revisiting of the Aristotelian cosmos in Collegio Romano (1618-1677) PDF

15/11/2023

Galilaeana 2/2023 is out!

The new issue features a focus on Galileo’s il Saggiatore, edited by Dario Tessicini, with contributions by Eva Struhal; Nick Wilding and Jason W. Dean; Albert Van Helden, Eileen Reeves, and Huilb Zuidervaart.

The issue also includes research articles by Gábor Förköli, Michele Camerota, Sara Bonechi, and Federico Tognoni, and an essay review by Oreste Trabucco.

In the news, Alessandra Lenzi writes about the Paolo Rossi archive at the Museo Galileo and Miguel A. Granada commemorates the late Owen Gingerich.

Check out the whole open-access issue here:

Luís Miguel Carolino The burden of Galileo's controversy: the Jesuit revisiting of the Aristotelian cosmos in Collegio Romano (1618-1677) PDF

04/05/2023

Call for papers | Galileo and Literature

The aim of this call is to draw attention to two specific issues of historical, literary, and philosophical research. On the one hand, the objective is to explore how Galileo considered and used literature; on the other, to observe how past and current writers and intellectuals have tested and enriched their knowledge with Galileo’s teachings.

Themes:

• Galileo as a reader of literature.
• Galileo’s use of words and literary forms in his writings
• Galileo as the “communicator” of the new science
• To what degree did Galileo’s celestial discoveries modify our image of literature?
• How present is Galileo in contemporary literature and what does it mean to refer to him as scientist and humanist?

Submission deadline: November 30th 2023.
Publication date: May 2024.

Learn more at https://gal-studies.museogalileo.it/index.php/galilaeana/announcement/view/1

04/05/2023

Twenty years after its first issue (2004), Galilæana changes its look and format. It will no longer be a paper journal and it will be released twice a year online in open access format.

The journal will be hosted on the website of the Museo Galileo in Florence, which has always promoted the journal since its birth.

The first issue (1-2023) of the new course features a focus section on "The Circulation of Renaissance and Early Modern Scientific Traditions in the Americas" (editor: Sebastián Molina-Betancur) with contributions by Renée Raphael, Sergio Orozco-Echeverri, Sebastián Molina-Betancur, and Nydia Pineda de Ávila; essays by Miguel Angel Granada and Francesco Barreca; and an essay review by Harold J. Cook.

All the papers are available in pdf format on the Galilæana website https://gal-studies.museogalileo.it/index.php/galilaeana/issue/view/1