Galileo, Bruno and the Rhetoric of Dialogue in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy (2008)
In this paper I shall be comparing two of Galileo's dialogues with a late sixteenthcentury dialogue by Giordano Bruno, in order to suggest some of the ways in which the dialogue form establishes what Leibniz refers to as the order of meditation [ordo meditandi], and the benefits which it gains from allowing truth to be revealed gradually [paulatim]. I shall also look at some of the rhetorical advantages of the dialogue form over the systematic treatise, and the way in which it facilitates methodological and procedural reflections in natural philosophy, by embodying and enacting particular styles of philosophical argumentation, and establishing certain kinds of epistemological claims.
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