In search of a spiritus: Francesco Patrizi on tides |
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Authors: | Ovanes Akopyan |
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Institution: | 1. Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen, Leopold-Franzens-Universit?t Innsbruck, AustriaOvanes.Akopyan@uibk.ac.at |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTThis article analyzes two chapters of Francesco Patrizi’s Nova de universis philosophia that deal with a topic widely debated in European intellectual circles at the time: the origin of tides. By deconstructing Patrizi’s views on the phenomenon of ebb and flow, this paper places these chapters of Patrizi’s opus magnum into a larger context and shows how, with the use of novel philosophical arguments, he sought to replace what he considered an outdated theory of tides. |
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Keywords: | Francesco Patrizi da Cherso Renaissance philosophy spiritus history of science flow and ebb in the Renaissance Bernardino Telesio |
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