Martin, Craig (Author)
For Renaissance Aristotelian natural philosophers, ideally knowledge was certain and based on syllogistic demonstration. Many Italian scholars, such as Agostino Nifo, Pietro Pomponazzi, and Niccolò Cabeo, considered this ideal as inapplicable to the field of meteorology. Rather, because of the accidental nature of meteorological phenomena and the inherent irregularity of the weather, they believed that causal explanations of meteorology were largely conjectural, provisional, and probabilistic. Several of these natural philosophers applied the standard of "saving the appearances" to the field of meteorology because of the difficulties involved in making accurate observations. This lower epistemological standard contributed to the willingness of Aristotelians to revise meteorological theories and deviate from Aristotle's own positions.
...MoreArticle Newman, William R.; Sylla, Edith Dudley (2009) Introduction. Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (p. 1).
Article
Martin, Craig;
(2006)
Experience of the New World and Aristotelian Revisions of the Earth's Climates during the Renaissance
(/isis/citation/CBB000931782/)
Book
Martin, Craig;
(2011)
Renaissance Meteorology: Pomponazzi to Descartes
(/isis/citation/CBB001220604/)
Article
Maria Antonia Rancadore;
(2017)
Elementi di psicologia empirica in Aristotele e Pomponazzi
(/isis/citation/CBB369855702/)
Chapter
Roberto Lo Presti;
(2017)
(Dis)embodied Thinking & the Scale of Beings: Pietro Pomponazzi & Agostino Nifo on the “Psychic” Processes in Men & Animals
(/isis/citation/CBB773562609/)
Article
Rohr, Christian;
(2005)
The Danube Floods and their Human Response and Perception (14th to 17th C)
(/isis/citation/CBB000931776/)
Article
Craig Martin;
(2019)
Astrological Debates in Italian Renaissance Commentaries on Aristotle’s Meteorology
(/isis/citation/CBB852394399/)
Book
Sgarbi, Marco;
Bertolotti, Maurizio;
(2010)
Pietro Pomponazzi: tradizione e dissenso
(/isis/citation/CBB001220191/)
Chapter
Zambelli, Paola;
(2012)
Pietro Pomponazzi's De immortalitate and His Clandestine De incantationibus: Aristotelianism, Eclecticism or Libertinism?
(/isis/citation/CBB001200482/)
Book
De Bellis, Ennio;
(2003)
Nicoletto Vernia e Agostino Nifo: aspetti storiografici e metodologici
(/isis/citation/CBB000701212/)
Article
Vittoria Perrone Compagni;
(2011)
"La stagione delli frumenti": Due lezioni di Pomponazzi sulla generazione spontanea
(/isis/citation/CBB440201569/)
Article
Riccarda Suitner;
(2016)
Radical Reformation and Medicine in the Late Renaissance
(/isis/citation/CBB011825343/)
Chapter
Pomata, Gianna;
(2005)
Praxis Historialis: The Uses of Historia in Early Modern Medicine
(/isis/citation/CBB000670276/)
Chapter
Moritz, Anja;
(2007)
Die Aristotelesrezeption der protestantischen Geistlichen zwischen theologischer und praktischer Ethik
(/isis/citation/CBB001020249/)
Book
Thierry Belleguic;
(2013)
Ordre et désordre du monde: enquête sur les météores, de la Renaissance à l'âge moderne
(/isis/citation/CBB238470883/)
Chapter
Deflers, Isabelle;
(2007)
Aristotelismus in Melanchthons Rechtsauffassung
(/isis/citation/CBB001020197/)
Article
Maurizio Erto;
(2017)
'Giocare col fuoco' nel Seicento. Esperimenti e osservazioni naturalistiche nella Solfatara di Pozzuoli
(/isis/citation/CBB764648200/)
Book
Goddu, André;
(2010)
Copernicus and the Aristotelian Tradition: Education, Reading, and Philosophy in Copernicus's Path to Heliocentrism
(/isis/citation/CBB001020711/)
Article
Copenhaver, Brian P.;
(2006)
Maimonides, Abulafia and Pico: A Secret Aristotle for the Renaissance
(/isis/citation/CBB001020467/)
Book
Bianchi, Luca;
(2003)
Studi sull'aristotelismo del Rinascimento
(/isis/citation/CBB000671201/)
Chapter
Monfasani, John;
(2004)
The Pseudo-Aristotelian Problemata and Aristotle's De Animalibus in the Renaissance
(/isis/citation/CBB000641021/)
Be the first to comment!