Science and natural philosophy in the Giacomo Leopardi's papers

Prometheus, chained to a rock, having his liver pecked out by a great bird only for the organ to grow back again each night so that the torture may be repeated afresh the next day ...

Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) is better known as a remarkable poet and writer than a philosophical thinker. However, he followed closely the philosophical developments of his time, ...

Leopardi’s Zibaldone presents a compelling study of semantic relations between textual fragments because the author’s interpretive annotations form complex intra- and intertextual ...

One of most surprising aspects of the shift from scholastic natural philosophy to the new mechanist natural philosophies in the early decades of the seventeenth century is the rete...

Se analiza la patobiografia de tres de los más importantes escritores y poetas entre los siglos XVI al XIX: Francisco de Quevedo, Alexander Pope y Giacomo Leopardi, que presentaron...

Este artigo apresenta uma análise de alguns aspectos da tradução da única tradução brasileira de Pensieri, de Giacomo Leopardi, publicada em 1996. Em um primeiro momento, fazemos u...

This article investigates the writings of Danish science journalist Børge Michelsen from 1939 to 1956. As part of the international social relations of science movement in the peri...

Bruno Latour is not the only scholar to reflect on his earlier contributions to science studies with some regret and resolve over climate skepticism and science denialism. Given th...

ABSTRACTThe ancient sources for the location of Thule are reviewed.1 It is suggested that the identification of the Shetland Isles as Thule was an error by Agricola. The identifica...