By Meredith K. Ray
This e-book examines a pivotal second within the historical past of technology and women’s position in it. Meredith Ray deals the 1st in-depth examine and entire English translation of the interesting correspondence among Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a common thinker and writer of the epic poem, Scanderbeide (1623), and famed astronomer, Galileo Galilei. Their correspondence, undertaken quickly after the book of Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius, unearths how Sarrocchi approached Galileo for his support revising her epic poem, supplying, in go back, her endorsement of his fresh telescopic discoveries. positioned opposed to the colourful and sometimes contentious backdrop of early glossy highbrow and educational tradition, their letters illustrate, in miniature, that the clinical Revolution used to be, actually, the fabricated from an extended evolution with roots within the deep connections among literary and clinical exchanges.
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35 Behind the story of Galileo’s triumphal trip to Rome in 1611, therefore, lies another story: one of controversy and tensions as members of the scientific community struggled—and, in some cases, refused—to accept the validity of his observations. ”36 In Rome, however, Cristopher Clavius, the prince of mathematicians at the Society of Jesus, along with Cristoph Grienberger, Odo van Maelcote, and Giovanni Paolo Lembo, had at last confirmed Galileo’s observations for themselves, and Galileo traveled south to meet with them.
By seeking out Sarrocchi, Bettoli understood that his message would be sympathetically conveyed to Galileo. In a series of letters to Bettoli and to Galileo himself, Sarrocchi dives into the debate, strenuously defending Galileo against the allegations from Perugia. Sarrocchi had tested Galileo’s cannocchiale, likely at one of his demonstrations during his 1611 visit to Rome. Insisting on her own empirical testimony, derived from direct experience of the instrument, Sarrocchi describes how she confirmed Galileo’s observations for herself: … all that is said about the discovery of the stars by Signor Galileo is true: that is, that with Jupiter there are four wandering stars with their own motion, always and equally distant from Jupiter, but not from each other; and I saw them with my own eyes through Signor Galileo’s spyglass, and showed them to several friends, which the whole world knows.
69 Calidora’s particular interest in studying the heavens thus reflects the astrological conviction, common to early modern scientific thought despite injunctions from the Church, that the planets influence human actions and events. ”70 Contemporaries attributed the same opinion regarding the influence of the heavens to Sarrocchi, although they took pains to distinguish her views on astrology from any unorthodox connotation. Bronzini, for example, in his catalog of famous women, highlights Sarrocchi’s belief in the “influence of the stars” (“influssi delle stelle”) but stresses that her cosmological beliefs remain within the bounds of Catholic doctrine.