Renaissance meteorology : Pomponazzi to Descartes

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Renaissance meteorology : Pomponazzi to Descartes

Craig Martin

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Craig Martin takes a careful look at how Renaissance scientists analyzed and interpreted rain, wind, and other natural phenomena like meteors and earthquakes and their impact on the great thinkers of the scientific revolution. Martin argues that meteorology was crucial to the transformation that took place in science during the early modern period. By examining the conceptual foundations of the subject, Martin links Aristotelian meteorology with the new natural philosophies of the seventeenth century. He argues that because meteorology involved conjecture and observation and forced attention to material and efficient causation, it paralleled developments in the natural philosophies of Descartes and other key figures of the scientific revolution. Although an inherently uncertain endeavor, forecasting the weather was an extremely useful component not just of scientific study, but also of politics, courtly life, and religious doctrine. Martin explores how natural philosophers of the time participated in political and religious controversies by debating the meanings, causes, and purposes of natural disasters and other weather phenomena. Through careful readings of an impressive range of texts, Martin situates the history of meteorology within the larger context of Renaissance and early modern science. The first study on Renaissance theories of weather in five decades, Renaissance Meteorology offers a novel understanding of traditional natural philosophy and its impact on the development of modern science.

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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Epistemology of Meteorology 2. Teleology in Renaissance Meteorology 3. The Ferrarese Earthquakes and the Employment of Learned Meteorology 4. The Chymistry of Weather 5. Niccolo Cabeo's Meteorology as the Basis for a New Aristotelianism 6. Causation and Method in Cartesian Meteorology Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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