The reappearance of Galileo's original Letter to Benedetto Castelli

IF 0.4 3区哲学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science Pub Date : 2018-10-24 DOI:10.1098/rsnr.2018.0053

M. Camerota, F. Giudice, S. Ricciardo

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This article describes an important manuscript discovered recently in the Royal Society archives, and presents evidence that it is the holograph of Galileo's Letter to Benedetto Castelli of 21 December 1613. It was in this letter that Galileo first set out his ideas on the relation between science and religion, and defended Copernican astronomy from charges of being contrary to the Holy Scriptures. The text of the Letter has hitherto been known only through manuscript copies, namely the 12 used by Antonio Favaro in his critical edition of 1895. Despite his magisterial work, Favaro did not manage to locate Galileo's autograph and was forced to rely exclusively on copies. The Letter to Castelli preserved at the Royal Society is of remarkable interest. By comparison with the other extant manuscript copies by different hands, its wording seems to be theologically more daring and compromising. The discovery of this autograph is therefore one of the most important in Galilean studies in recent decades, shedding new light on his intricate relations with the Roman Catholic Church in these years.

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伽利略给贝内代托·卡斯特利的原信的再现

这篇文章描述了最近在皇家学会档案中发现的一份重要手稿，并提供了证据，证明它是1613年12月21日伽利略给贝内代托·卡斯特利的信的全息图。正是在这封信中，伽利略第一次提出了他对科学与宗教关系的看法，并为哥白尼的天文学辩护，使其免受与《圣经》相悖的指控。到目前为止，人们只知道这封信的文本是通过手稿，即安东尼奥·法瓦罗在1895年的评论版中使用的12份手稿。尽管他的工作很权威，但法瓦罗没能找到伽利略的亲笔签名，他只能依靠复制品。《致卡斯泰利的信》保存在英国皇家学会，很有意义。与其他现存的手稿副本相比，它的措辞似乎在神学上更加大胆和妥协。因此，这张亲笔签名的发现是近几十年来伽利略研究中最重要的发现之一，为伽利略这些年与罗马天主教会的复杂关系提供了新的线索。

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Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 综合性期刊-科学史与科学哲学

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期刊介绍： Notes and Records is an international journal which publishes original research in the history of science, technology and medicine. In addition to publishing peer-reviewed research articles in all areas of the history of science, technology and medicine, Notes and Records welcomes other forms of contribution including: research notes elucidating recent archival discoveries (in the collections of the Royal Society and elsewhere); news of research projects and online and other resources of interest to historians; essay reviews, on material relating primarily to the history of the Royal Society; and recollections or autobiographical accounts written by Fellows and others recording important moments in science from the recent past.