HISTART 62 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Sidereus Nuncius, Wanli Emperor, Gian Lorenzo Bernini
29 Nov 2016
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Themes of exploration around 1600 crystalize around some major. Renaissance themes under the addition of new scientific- technological methods. The context of colonization (south america, north america) opens up questions of ethics. Galileo galilei"s sketches of the moon from sidereus nuncius indicate and produce profound cultural, philosophical, and theological changes. Missions and the colonial context of material exploration demand for new critical approaches. Several kinds of italian utopia expand outside italy (artistically to. France, theologically and scientifically to china, politically-colonially to america) and beyond the world (galileo galilei, to the moon via the telescope). The jesuits had a particular role in establishing cultural contact through the person of matteo ricci. Galileo galilei"s sketches of the moon from sidereus nuncius (sidereal messenger / sidereal message or starry messenger, short astronomical treatise in new latin by galileo galilei in 1610); excerpts from the printed book. Matteo ricci"s map of china (probably commissioned by the court of.
