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VOL. 12, ISSUE 2 (2025)
A documentary study of the letters exchanged between Galileo Galilei and the Prince Federico Cesi
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Marcos Cesar Danhoni Neves, Wiliams Roberto Gonçalves, Josie Agatha Parrilha da Silva
Abstract
This paper aims to study the intrinsic
everyday relationships between Galileo Galilei and Prince Federico Cesi. In
literature, it is possible to find other works that discuss the importance of
the history of science to understand its construction throughout historical
periods, one of them is the book Codex Cigoli-Galileo: Science, Art and
Religion in a Copernican Enigma, which discusses these relationships during
the Renaissance. During this period, reason and nature began to be valued more
intensely, and Renaissance man, especially scientists and artists, began to use
experimental methods and methods of observation of nature and the universe.
While in the Middle Ages man's life should be centered on God - theocentrism,
from the Renaissance onwards man became the main character in his own story.
Based on studies from this period, we sought to understand the complex
relationships in the construction of scientific knowledge during the period of
correspondence exchanges between Galileo Galilei and Prince Federico Cesi,
taking into account the influences of the Catholic Church and the society that
surrounded them. This work is of a documentary nature, with the translation and
analysis of four primary source letters exchanged between Galileo Galilei and
Prince Federico Cesi. To this end, we seek to answer the following research
question: What concepts contained in the letters exchanged between Prince Cesi
and Galileo Galilei during the Renaissance contribute to the process of
construction of scientific knowledge? During his research and with the help of
other Lynces, Galileo significantly improved the refracting telescope, and with
it he observed sunspots, the mountains of the Moon, the phases of Venus, the
four satellites of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn and the stars of the Milky Way.
The new science proposed by Galileo contributed significantly to the defense of
heliocentrism, one of the most debated and censored theories of that time,
marked by the execution of Giordano Bruno and the imprisonment of Galileo Galilei.
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Pages:101-109
How to cite this article:
Marcos Cesar Danhoni Neves, Wiliams Roberto Gonçalves, Josie Agatha Parrilha da Silva "A documentary study of the letters exchanged between Galileo Galilei and the Prince Federico Cesi". International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development, Vol 12, Issue 2, 2025, Pages 101-109
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