La lezione di geografia. Scuola, religione, scienza nell'età delle esplorazioni (1400-1800) (2023)
Salomoni, David (Author)
Edizioni Anicia
Physical Details: 152 pp.
Language: Italian
Il presente volume vuole ricostruire i meccanismi di alfabetizzazione geografica iniziati in Europa nel XV secolo, all’indomani delle prime esplorazioni spagnole e portoghesi nell’Oceano Atlantico. La geografia tardo medievale, infatti, non era ancora una disciplina epistemologicamente compatta così come siamo abituati a pensarla oggi. La proiezione sui mari e l’espansione sui nuovi continenti degli Stati europei, però, richiedeva l’elaborazione di nuovi strumenti teorici e categorie intellettuali in grado di facilitare questo processo. Fu così che attingendo dalla geometria, dalla filosofia naturale, dall’astronomia, e persino dalla retorica e dalla religione nacque la moderna geografia. In questo meccanismo le scuole di ogni ordine e grado, complici le innovazioni pedagogiche del rinascimento della prima età moderna, svolsero un ruolo centrale. All’interno del libro la nascita della geografia come disciplina scolastica verrà quindi analizzata nel quadro delle trasformazioni politiche, economiche, religiose, scientifiche e culturali che attraversarono l’Europa tra il 1400 e il 1800, senza ignorare il dibattito contemporaneo sul ruolo di questa disciplina nella società e nella scuola di oggi. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… This volume aims to reconstruct the mechanisms of geographical literacy that began in Europe in the 15th century, in the aftermath of the first Spanish and Portuguese explorations in the Atlantic Ocean. Late medieval geography, in fact, was not yet an epistemologically compact discipline as we are used to thinking of it today. The projection onto the seas and the expansion onto the new continents of the European states, however, required the development of new theoretical tools and intellectual categories capable of facilitating this process. Thus it was that drawing from geometry, natural philosophy, astronomy, and even rhetoric and religion, modern geography was born. In this mechanism, schools of all levels, thanks to the pedagogical innovations of the Renaissance of the early modern age, played a central role. Within the book, the birth of geography as a school discipline will therefore be analyzed within the framework of the political, economic, religious, scientific and cultural transformations that crossed Europe between 1400 and 1800, without ignoring the contemporary debate on the role of this discipline in today's society and school.]
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