Galilæana. Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Science

Editors-in-chief
Massimo Bucciantini, Michele Camerota, Franco Giudice

1. Irene Baldriga (Sapienza Università di Roma)
2. Andrea Battistini (†)
3. Domenico Bertoloni Meli (Indiana University, Bloomington)
4. Filippo Camerota (Museo Galileo)
5. Maurice Clavelin (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
6. Maurice A. Finocchiaro (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
7. Paolo Galluzzi (Museo Galileo)
8. Owen Gingerich (Harvard University)
9. Enrico Giusti (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
10. Miguel Angel Granada (Universitat de Barcelona)
11. John L. Heilbron (Berkeley, University of California)
12. Mario Helbing (independent scholar)
13. Roberti Iliffe (University of Oxford)
14. Michel-Pierre Lerner (Observatoire de Paris)
15. Pamela O. Long (independent scholar)
16. Carla Rita Palmerino (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
17. Isabelle Pantin (École normale supérieure, Paris)
18. Giuseppe Patota (Università degli Studi di Siena)
19. Adriano Prosperi (Scuola Normale Superiore)
20. Eileen Reeves (Princeton University)
21. Jürgen Renn (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
22. Thomas B. Settle (†)
23. Dario Tessicini (Università degli Studi di Genova)
24. Maurizio Torrini (†)
25. Albert Van Helden (Rice University, Houston)
26. Nick Wilding (Georgia State University, Atlanta)

Executive committee
Marta Stefani (Managing Editor)

Francesco Barreca, Natacha Fabbri, Federica Favino, Susana Gòmez, Sebastián Molina-Betancur, Alessandro Ottaviani, Salvatore Ricciardo (Book Review Editor), Patrizia Ruffo, Federico Tognoni, Oreste Trabucco, Valentina Vignieri

Direttore responsabile
Roberto Ferrari

Galilæana online
Stefano Casati

Issn: 1971-6052

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2022-2023 publication calendar

In order to submit for the 2022 issue, authors should send their proposals via email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. no later than December 31st 2021.

Starting 2023, Galilæana will become a six-monthly journal (April/October).

Submission that are received by May 31st will be reviewed to be published in the October issue. Submissions that are received by November 30th will be reviewed to be included in the April issue of the following year. Thus, to submit for issue 1-2023, proposals should be sent by November 30th 2022. Starting 2022, authors will be required to register to the OJS-based journal website (currently under costruction).

Review process

All submissions undergo a peer-review process. The production manager performs a screening of each manuscript to ensure that:

• it has been assigned to the correct section
• it meets the length requirements
• it is anonymous

Each submission follows a specific path depending on the section it is submitted to. Those manuscripts deemed inappropriate in content or form are usually immediately rejected.

Section policies

Essays

Themed section / Focus

Book reviews and notes

1. Manuscripts should be submitted in the following form: Word for Windows Document. Font: Times New Roman, 12 point, standard page, default margins, double-spaced.

2. Galilæana subjects the papers received to 2 blind referees. Authors will notified as soon as possible.

3. Bibliographic information should be given in footnotes (citing the author-date between parentheses and using endnotes is not accepted), written in smaller print than the main text, numbered consecutively throughout the article and keyed to reference numbers above the text line.
a. References to texts by Galileo published in the Edizione Nazionale delle Opere, edited by Antonio Favaro, should be cited using the abbreviation OG, followed by the indication of the volume in Roman numerals and of the pages in Arabic numerals.
Example:
OG, XV, pp. 32-33.
b. References to books should include: author's full name in Small Capitals; complete title of the book in italics; place of publication, publisher's name, date of publication, page numbers cited.
Example:
Maurice Clavelin, La philosophie naturelle de Galilée, Paris, Colin, 1968, pp. 270-271.
c. References to articles appearing in volumes and with an editor, should include: author's full name in Small Capitals; title of article in italics; editor's full name in Small Capitals; volume title in italics; place of publication, publisher's name, date of publication, page numbers cited.
Example:
Horst Bredekamp, Gazing Hands and Blind Spots: Galileo as Draftsman, in Jürgen Renn (ed.), Galileo in Context, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 153-192: 174-175.
d. References to articles in journals should include: author's full name inSmall Capitals; title of article in italics; title of journal in quotation marks (« »), year, volume number, page numbers of article, number of particular page cited.
Example:
Stillman Drake, Kepler and Galileo, «Vistas in Astronomy», 18, 1975, pp. 237-247: 245.
e. Succeeding citations of books and articles should use an abbreviated version with only the author's last name, indicating between parentheses the note in which the entire citation appears for the first time.
Example:
Drake, Kepler and Galileo (cit. note 14), p. 242.

4. Passages quoted within text should use only the quotation marks: « ». Single quotation marks (' ') should instead be used to lend particular emphasis to a term or expression. Double quotation marks (" ") are admitted only in cases in which the cited passage in turn contains another.

5. Illustrations can be used if they prove functional to the article's purposes. Galilæana usually considers two types of illustrations:
a. Photographs: black and white on gloss paper. Format: 13 x 18 cm. or 18 x 24 cm. These illustrations should be inserted outside the text and marked with the abbreviation ILL.
b. Line drawings: black and white. These illustrations should be inserted inside the text and marked with the abbreviation FIG.

6. For further or more detailed information, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Manuscripts will not be returned.

Focus: THE RECEPTION OF GALILEO IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND DURING THE LONG SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

• Franco Giudice – Niccolò Guicciardini, Presentation
• Franco Giudice, Tobie Matthew, Francis Bacon, and Galileo’s Letter to Benedetto Castelli
• Michele Camerota, Roman Holiday. George Fortescue and Galileo
• Mordechai Feingold, An Anatomy of a Religio-Scientific Polemic: The Wilkins-Ross Controversy Revisited
• Stephen Clucas – Timothy Raylor, SKenelm Digby’s Two Treatises and the Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion
• Salvatore Ricciardo, The «greate Star-gazer Galileo» in mid-seventeenth-century England: the case of Robert Boyle
• Carla Rita Palmerino, Galileo ‘philosopher geometer’ and his influence on Charleton, Barrow and Keill
• Enrico R.A.C. Giannetto, Galileo, Descartes and Newton’s Laws

Studies

• Luís Miguel Carolino, Between Galileo’s Celestial Novelties and Clavius’s astronomical legacy: The Cosmology of the Jesuit Giovanni Paolo Lembo (1615)

Texts&Documents

• Leonardo Anatrini, The Theologian’s Endgame. On the recently discovered censorial report of Galileo’s Dialogue and related documents
• Mario Livio, Did Galileo Truly Say, ‘And Yet It Moves’? A Modern Detective Story

Essay Reviews

• Oreste Trabucco, «Io confondo li macchiavellisti e scienziati, che eternano il mondo con Aristotele». Su una biografia di Tommaso Campanella
• Harold J. Cook, To Descartes’ ear? Listening in on Heterodox Natural Philosophy in Germany
• Sebastián Molina-Betancur, Translating as a manner of appropriation: Granada and Gómez Crespo’s transcription of Cedillo’s Ydea
• Maurice A. Finocchiaro, Facts and fictions, insights and oversights in Galileo’s early biographies

• Paolo Galluzzi, Maurizio Torrini (1942-2019). Ricordo di un amico

Studies

• Ivan Malara, Galileo and His Sources? A Different Methodological Approach to Galileo’s Juvenilia
• Joseph Zepeda, Galileo’s Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina: Genre, Coherence, and the Structure of Dispute
• Lucia Bucciarelli, Back to Battle: The Latin Edition of the Dialogue and of the Letter to Christina (1635-1636)
• Sebastián Molina Betancur, José Celestino Mutis and the Defence of the Copernican system in the Viceroyalty of New Granada

Texts&Documents

• Luca Piccinali, La famiglia di Benedetto Castelli. Note dalle polizze d’estimo bresciane (1517-1627)
• Sara Bonechi, L’archivio di Raffaello Caverni

Essay Reviews

• Andrea Bernardoni, Descrivere la macchina umana: il lessico dell’anatomia di Leonardo
• Oreste Trabucco, Su un censimento di edizioni telesiane
• Antonella Del Prete, Da ancilla theologiae a ancilla scientiae: la nascita della filosofia della scienza nell’Olanda del Seicento
• Marta Stefani, From Life to Death, from Death to Life, from Life to Life: Reflections on the Spontaneous Generation of Living Things

Obituary

• Maurice A. Finocchiaro, Ronald H. Naylor (1937-2018)

Table of contents [browse]

• Announcement. The Discovery of the Autograph Manuscript of Galileo’s Letter to Benedetto Castelli, p. V

Focus: ATOMS AND LIGHT IN THE 17th CENTURY

• Antonio Clericuzio, Gassendi and the English Mechanical Philo­sophers, p. 3
• Gregorio Baldin, Points, Atoms and Rays of Light: History of a Controversy from Mersenne to Hobbes, p. 31
• Simone Guidi, Lux sive qualitas. Incorporeità ed estensione della luce nell’aristotelismo iberico e italiano di primo Seicento, p. 61

STUDIES

• Luca Ciancio, «An Amphitheatre Built on Toothpicks»: Galileo, Nardi and the Hypothesis of Central Fire, p. 83
• Francesco Barreca, Luis de Granada’s Introduttione del simbolo della fede as a Possible Source to Galileo’s letter to Piero Dini March 23, 1615, p. 115
• Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle, Galileo and the Case of Psalm 19, p. 137
• Andrea Strazzoni, The Medical Cartesianism of Henricus Re­gius Disciplinary Partitions, Mechanical Reductionism and Methodological Aspects, p. 181

TEXTS & DOCUMENTS

• Alfonso Mirto, Manfredo Settala: Lettere ai Fiorentini, p. 221

OBITUARIES

• Stefano Caroti, Germana Ernst (1943-2016), p. 267
  Roberta Ferro, Gli ‘stili di pensiero’ di Eraldo Bellini, p. 275

ESSAY REVIEWS

• Dario Tessicini, On the Origins of Copernicus’s Heliocentris, p.287
• Leonardo Anatrini, Science in the Margins Reading Purposes of Galileo’s 17^th-Century Scholars, p. 301

Volume XIV, 2017

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Volume XIII, 2016

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Volume XII, 2015

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Volume XI, 2014

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Volume X, 2013

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Volume IX, 2012

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Volume VIII, 2011

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Volume VII, 2010

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Volume VI, 2009

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Volume V, 2008

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Volume IV, 2007

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Volume III, 2006

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Volume II, 2015

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Volume I, 2004

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