Science and Praxis
Historical Cases of Political Epistemology
Published on 10. July 2025
Book
Hardback
314 pages
978-90-04-44518-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume addresses questions in the history of science and allied disciplines, about the inseparable relation between science and politics. Cases presented in the book shed light on the political conditions, orientation and the consequences of science. Together, they articulate frames of inquiry in historical-political epistemology. Situated in the early modern historical context, the volume draws attention to different political factors which shaped scientific practices and their ideologies. Given the contested historiographies of the scientific revolution, the critical approach of this volume offers an invitation for further historical inquiries on the practices and politics of science.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
740 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-44518-5 (9789004445185)
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Persons
Senthil Babu D., French Institute of Pondicherry, India, is a historian of science and mathematics; he coordinates research on Nature, Knowledge, Labour. He has published on social history of mathematical practices and is the author of Mathematics and Society (2022).
Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Ca' Foscari University Venice, UNESCO Chair 'Water Heritage and Sustainable Development', Max Planck Partner Group 'The Water City' (MPI-GEA Jena). He has published monographs and articles on historical epistemology and early modern science, including Political Epistemology (2019).
Claus Zittel is Professor of German literature at the University of Stuttgart and since 2019 at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He is deputy director of the Stuttgart Research Center for Text Studies and Co-Director of the Ca' Foscari Bembo-Lab.
Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Ca' Foscari University Venice, UNESCO Chair 'Water Heritage and Sustainable Development', Max Planck Partner Group 'The Water City' (MPI-GEA Jena). He has published monographs and articles on historical epistemology and early modern science, including Political Epistemology (2019).
Claus Zittel is Professor of German literature at the University of Stuttgart and since 2019 at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He is deputy director of the Stuttgart Research Center for Text Studies and Co-Director of the Ca' Foscari Bembo-Lab.
Content
List of Figures
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
Early Modern Political Epistemology - Introduction
?Senthil Babu D. and Pietro Daniel Omodeo
1 Calculation and Power: Engagement of Astronomers in Water-Management Projects in the Early Islamicate State
?Razieh S. Mousavi
2 Cultural-Political Agendas between Constantinople and Rome: the Controversies about the Science of the Stars in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium
?Alberto Bardi
3 Engineering the Flow of Coins: Money and Natural Philosophy in Oresme's Writings
?Philippe Debroise and Mourtaza Chopra
4 The Nexus of Knowledge and Praxis in Leonardo Da Vinci from Marxism to the Anthropocene
?Pietro Daniel Omodeo
5 Crisis and Modernity - Memory and Oblivion: Early Modern Political Epistemologies in Niccolo Machiavelli and Giordano Bruno
?Giulio Gisondi
6 Towards a Political Epistemology of Abstraction: an Inquiry into the Case of Jost Buergi's Progress Tabulen (1620)
?Damian Moosbrugger
7 A Copernican Revolution in the Lagoon: When Galilean Mathematician Benedetto Castelli Tried to Solve the Hydrogeological Problems of Venice
?Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Senthil Babu D. and Sebastiano Trevisani
8 The Controversy on the Shape of the Earth: a Political-Epistemological Approach
?Marco Storni
9 Multiple Social Temporalities of the Scientific Revolution: a Bourdieusian Perspective
?Gerardo Ienna
10 Humanism and Anti-humanism: a Judgement on "Modernity"
?Jonathan Molinari
Index Nominum
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
Early Modern Political Epistemology - Introduction
?Senthil Babu D. and Pietro Daniel Omodeo
1 Calculation and Power: Engagement of Astronomers in Water-Management Projects in the Early Islamicate State
?Razieh S. Mousavi
2 Cultural-Political Agendas between Constantinople and Rome: the Controversies about the Science of the Stars in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium
?Alberto Bardi
3 Engineering the Flow of Coins: Money and Natural Philosophy in Oresme's Writings
?Philippe Debroise and Mourtaza Chopra
4 The Nexus of Knowledge and Praxis in Leonardo Da Vinci from Marxism to the Anthropocene
?Pietro Daniel Omodeo
5 Crisis and Modernity - Memory and Oblivion: Early Modern Political Epistemologies in Niccolo Machiavelli and Giordano Bruno
?Giulio Gisondi
6 Towards a Political Epistemology of Abstraction: an Inquiry into the Case of Jost Buergi's Progress Tabulen (1620)
?Damian Moosbrugger
7 A Copernican Revolution in the Lagoon: When Galilean Mathematician Benedetto Castelli Tried to Solve the Hydrogeological Problems of Venice
?Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Senthil Babu D. and Sebastiano Trevisani
8 The Controversy on the Shape of the Earth: a Political-Epistemological Approach
?Marco Storni
9 Multiple Social Temporalities of the Scientific Revolution: a Bourdieusian Perspective
?Gerardo Ienna
10 Humanism and Anti-humanism: a Judgement on "Modernity"
?Jonathan Molinari
Index Nominum