Gianfrancesco, L and Tarrant, N (Eds).
(2024)
The Science of Naples: Making knowledge in Italy’s pre-eminent city, 1500-1800.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Long neglected in the history of Renaissance and early modern Europe, in recent years scholars have revised received understanding of the political and economic significance of the city of Naples and its rich artistic, musical and political culture. Its importance in the history of science, however, has remained relatively unknown. The Science of Naples provides the first dedicated study of Neapolitan scientific culture in the English language. Drawing on contributions from leading experts in the field, this volume presents a series of studies that demonstrate Neapolitans’ manifold contributions to European scientific culture in the early modern period and considers the importance of the city, its institutions and surrounding territories for the production of new knowledge. Individual chapters demonstrate the extent to which Neapolitan scholars and academies contributed to debates within the Republic of Letters that continued until deep into the nineteenth century. They also show how studies of Neapolitan natural disasters yielded unique insights that contributed to the development of fields such as medicine and earth sciences. Taken together, these studies resituate the city of Naples as an integral part of an increasingly globalised scientific culture, and present a rich and engaging portrait of the individuals who lived, worked and made scientific knowledge there.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Science of Naples: Making knowledge in Italy’s pre-eminent city, 1500-1800 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800086739 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800086739 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800086739 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2024 Text © Contributors, 2024 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2024 licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Gianfrancesco, L. and Tarrant, N. (eds.) 2024. The Science of Naples: Making knowledge in Italy’s pre-eminent city, 1500–1800. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800086739 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | History of science, history, Naples, Italy, Neapolitan, museums, antiquity, volcanology, medicine, anatomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192731 |
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