Intellectual Roots of the Italian Enlightenment

by FERRONE, VINCENZO

• ISBN13: 9781573924528
• ISBN10: 1573924520
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-02-01
• Publisher: Humanities Press

Table of Contents

Foreword
Translator's Note
Preface
Abbreviations
The First Debates on Newtonian Science
The Dawn of the Eighteenth Century	p. 1
The Opticks, the Principia mathematica, and Roman Scientists	p. 4
Francesco Bianchini's Trip to England and Cardinal Gualtieri's Roman Academy	p. 22
The Principia and Copernicanism	p. 36
Galileo, Newton, and Libertas Philosophandi
The Galilean Heritage	p. 41
Epistemological Models in Comparison	p. 43
The Eighteenth-Century Editions of Galileo's Works	p. 49
A Manifesto for the Renewal of Italian Culture	p. 56
Enlightened Catholics and Newtonian Natural Theology
A New Image of God	p. 63
The Newtonians of London, The Hague, and Rome	p. 71
The Italian Editions of the Boyle Lectures	p. 76
Newton and Scientific Traditions in the Veneto
Anti-Newtonian Polemics	p. 89
Galilean Reason in Conti and Muratori	p. 99
The Libertine and Naturalist Heritages: Vallisnieri and Riccati	p. 105
The Materialist Reading of the Principia	p. 115
Celestino Galiani: Religious Uneasiness and Crises of the European Mind
His Early Training	p. 122
The Epistemological Debate with Antonio Conti	p. 131
From the Tractatus theologico-politicus to the Reasonableness of Christianity	p. 145
The Socinian Tradition: Reason and Tolerance	p. 157
Della scienza morale	p. 167
The Many Faces of Enlightened Catholicism	p. 176
From the Natural Sciences to the Social Sciences: The Origins of the Neapolitan Enlightenment
The Twilight of the Investiganti's Heritage	p. 183
The Party of the Moderns and Ideological Refoundation	p. 194
Paolo Mattia Doria's Scientific Counterrevolution	p. 211
Neomercantilism and the Enlightenment: From Intieri to Ventura	p. 220
The Humanist Synthesis and Christian Tradition: Doria and Broggia	p. 237
The Development and Exhaustion of the Debate: Towards Newtonian Scholasticism
Antonio Genovesi's Newtonianism	p. 248
The Universe-Machine in the Novelle letterarie	p. 262
Between Innovation and Reaction	p. 273
Notes	p. 279
Bibliography	p. 359
Index of Names	p. 387
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