Bernardino Telesio and the Natural Sciences in the Renaissance

Pietro Daniel Omodeo is a professor of Historical Epistemology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and PI of the ERC endeavor EarlyModernCosmology (Horizon 2020, GA 725883). He is the author of Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance (Brill, 2014).

• ForewordNote on ContributorsIntroductionPietro Daniel Omodeo1 The First of the Moderns: Telesio between Bacon and GalileoRoberto Bondí2 “Spiritus” and “anima a Deo immissa” in TelesioMiguel Ángel Granada3 Telesio, Aristotle, and Hippocrates on Cosmic HeatHiro Hirai4 Heat and Moving Spirits in Telesio’s and Della Porta’s Meteorological TreatisesArianna Borrelli5 Telesian Controversies on the Winds and MeteorologyOreste Trabucco6 Telesio and the Renaissance Debates on Sea TidesPietro Daniel Omodeo7 In Search of the True Nature of the Rainbow: Renewal of the Aristotelian Tradition in the Renaissance and the De IrideElio Nenci8 A Conversation by Telesio: Sensualism, Criticism of Aristotle, and the Theory of Light in the Late RenaissanceMartin Mulsow9 ‘Haereticorum more leges refellendi suas proponit’. At the Beginning of Telesian Censorship: an Annotated Copy of the 1565 Roman EditionAlessandro Ottaviani10 Reformation, Naturalism, and Telesianism: the Case of Agostino DoniRiccarda Suitner 20211 Between Myth and Reality: the Accademia TelesianaGiulia Giannini12 The Transformation of Final Causation: Telesio’s Theories of Self-Preservation and MotionRodolfo GarauBibliographyIndex