This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women's place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of this fascinating correspondence, which reveals the complex intersections of scientific and literary concerns among early modern intellectual communities. Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a polymath and author of the epic poem, Scanderbeide (1623), was also a natural philosopher, a member of a well-known salon in Rome, and an important ally of Galileo at the dawn of the Scientific Revolution. Their correspondence, undertaken soon after the publication of Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius, reveals how Sarrocchi approached Galileo for his help revising her epic poem; offering, in return, her endorsement of his recent telescopic discoveries. Situated against the vibrant and often contentious backdrop of early modern intellectual and academic culture, their letters illustrate, in miniature, that the Scientific Revolution was, in fact, the product of a long evolution with roots in the deep connections between literary and scientific exchanges.
This is Book 1 in the Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Series. See all Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine books here.
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