Parigi, Silvia (Author)
Carocci Editore
Physical Details: 212
Language: Italian
L’età moderna non è solo un’età di scoperte geografiche e scientifiche, nella quale aspetti del reale precedentemente ignoti o invisibili vengono resi manifesti. La curiosità che domina questo periodo ha un altro vasto campo d’indagine: i fenomeni occulti. Sono effetti visibili di cause invisibili, eventi osservabili di cui si ignorano le ragioni; disobbedienti alle regole codificate di una natura conforme a leggi, si collocano ai confini di molte discipline, perché si trovano ai limiti della natura stessa. I "mirabilia naturae" comprendono i fenomeni elettrici, magnetici e gravitazionali, destinati a diventare rilevanti per una comprensione scientifica del mondo, accanto alle teorie della fascinazione, alle voglie materne, alla rabdomanzia, al tarantismo, alla medicina magnetica. I prodigi della natura e dell’immaginazione costituiscono altrettanti capitoli della storia e della magia naturale: si spiegano con le qualità occulte universali della simpatia e dell’antipatia, veicolate dagli spiriti o dagli effluvi. Quel vasto repertorio di esempi, passato al vaglio di un incessante lavoro di analisi, confluisce infine nella filosofia naturale corpuscolare. La storia della lenta e incerta ridefinizione dei confini tra i "mirabilia", i "naturalia", e i "miracula" soprannaturali è l’oggetto di questo libro. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… The early modern age is not just a time of geographical and scientific discoveries, in which previously unknown or invisible aspects of reality are made manifest. The curiosity that dominates this period has another vast field of investigation: occult phenomena. They are visible effects of invisible causes, observable events whose reasons are unknown; disobedient to the codified rules of a nature conforming to laws, they are placed at the borders of many disciplines, because they are at the limits of nature itself. The "mirabilia naturae" include electrical, magnetic and gravitational phenomena, alongside the theories of fascination, maternal birthmarks, dowsing, tarantism, magnetic medicine. The wonders of nature and imagination constitute as many chapters of history and natural magic: they are explained by the universal occult qualities of sympathy and antipathy, conveyed by spirits or scents. That vast repertoire of examples, passed to the scrutiny of an incessant work of analysis, finally flows into the corpuscular natural philosophy. The story of the slow and uncertain redefinition of the boundaries between the "mirabilia," the "naturalia," and the supernatural "miracula" is the subject of this book.]
...MoreSimilar Citations
Book
Bever, Edward Watts Morton;
(2008)
The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition, and Everyday Life
(/isis/citation/CBB001232115/)
Article
Henry, John;
(2008)
The Fragmentation of Renaissance Occultism and the Decline of Magic
(/isis/citation/CBB000931529/)
Book
Christopher Partridge;
(2014)
The Occult World
(/isis/citation/CBB544694972/)
Book
Clucas, Stephen;
(2011)
Magic, Memory and Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
(/isis/citation/CBB001033684/)
Book
Rowlands, Alison;
(2009)
Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe
(/isis/citation/CBB001231107/)
Book
Ball, Philip;
(2006)
The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
(/isis/citation/CBB000773329/)
Book
Weill-Parot, Nicolas;
(2013)
Points aveugles de la nature: la rationnalité scientifique médiévale face à l'occulte, l'attraction magnétique et l'horreur du vide (XIIIe-milieu du XVe siècle)
(/isis/citation/CBB001551466/)
Book
Bailey, Michael David;
(2007)
Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present
(/isis/citation/CBB001232135/)
Book
Schulte, Rolf;
(2009)
Man as Witch: Male Witches in Central Europe
(/isis/citation/CBB001230872/)
Book
Donato Verardi;
(2018)
La scienza e i segreti della natura a Napoli nel Rinascimento: La magia naturale di Giovan Battista Della Porta
(/isis/citation/CBB944005794/)
Book
Klaassen, Frank F.;
(2013)
The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
(/isis/citation/CBB001321244/)
Book
Salvatore Califano;
(2015)
Storia dell'alchimia: misticismo ed esoterismo all'origine della chimica moderna
(/isis/citation/CBB559415425/)
Book
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia;
(2020)
The Body of Evidence: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine
(/isis/citation/CBB516817724/)
Chapter
Harkness, Deborah E.;
(2006)
The Nexus of Angelology, Eschatology, and Natural Philosophy in John Dee's Angel Conversations and Library
(/isis/citation/CBB000760329/)
Book
Coudert, Allison P.;
(2011)
Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America
(/isis/citation/CBB001201259/)
Book
Roberto Bondì;
(2023)
Animal Tellus. Storia di un'idea
(/isis/citation/CBB194255752/)
Book
Hanegraaff, Wouter J.;
(2012)
Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture
(/isis/citation/CBB001201630/)
Article
Collins, David J.;
(2010)
Albertus, Magnus or Magus? Magic, Natural Philosophy, and Religious Reform in the Late Middle Ages
(/isis/citation/CBB001030621/)
Book
Von Stuckrad, Kocku;
(2010)
Locations of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Esoteric Discourse and Western Identities
(/isis/citation/CBB001200922/)
Article
Pinet, Patrice;
(2009)
Petite histoire des remèdes magnétiques
(/isis/citation/CBB000933404/)
Be the first to comment!