Article ID: CBB072049460

Scenes with the Earth as actor: Agency and the early-modern Earth (2020)

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This essay asks how several major figures of Renaissance and early-modern philosophy saw the Earth as agential. It argues that the Earth’s agency served as a well-articulated and fundamental concept in their philosophies. That is, figures like Giordano Bruno and Johannes Kepler conceived of the Earth’s agency such that it solved key problems in their cosmological systems. The essay is inspired by Bruno Latour’s ecological thought, even as it acts as a corrective to certain of his assertions about early modernity. The essay concludes with some practical lessons that might be taken from early modernity.

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Authors & Contributors
Giuliano Pinto
Luzzini, Francesco
Alberto Malvolti
Laetitia Rimpau
Rinaldo Rinaldi
Alessandra Dattero
Journals
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Acque Sotterranee
Publishers
Olschki
Viella
Universitätsverlag Winter
Edizioni ETS
Concepts
Environmental history
Natural resource management
Earth sciences
Water
Water resource management
Environment
People
Kepler, Johannes
Brahe, Tycho
Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob
Leonardo da Vinci
Galilei, Galileo
Alighieri, Dante
Time Periods
Renaissance
Early modern
16th century
17th century
Medieval
18th century
Places
Europe
Italy
Tuscany (Italy)
Florence (Italy)
Alps (Europe)
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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