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Dec 09, 2005
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Date of publication Dec 09, 2005 Category: Book Review
Science and natural philosophy in the Giacomo Leopardi's papers
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Date of publication Mar 21, 2005 Category: Commentary
Creativity in the art and in the music of Big Bang: interview to the composer Claudio Ambrosini
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Date of publication Mar 21, 2005 Category: Commentary
Metaphor, allegory and parody: interferences and resonances between science an music in the contemporary perception
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Date of publication Mar 21, 2005 Category: Commentary
Mathematicians and musicians, pattern's exploratories
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Date of publication Sep 21, 2004 Category: Article
The Tuscan Artist
In The Areopagitica, his most important work of prose, John Milton mentions Galileo as the illustrious martyr who fought for the freedom of thought. The name of the great scientist is repeated several times in the English poet's epic masterpiece: Paradise Lost. In three different passages of the poem, Milton in fact celebrates the "Tuscan Artist" and his crucial achievements in astronomy. Nevertheless, in a subsequent passage, the poet addresses the Copernican issue without openly defending the heliocentric theory confirmed by Galileo's discoveries. In fact, he neither embraces the Copernican system nor the Ptolemaic one, but instead compares them, following a dialectic method where one cannot fail to notice an echo of Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the two Chief World Systems. Milton's literary work presents images of astronomy at that time, thus offering a valuable historical example of scientific communication through art.
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Date of publication Dec 21, 2003 Category: Commentary
Mathland - the space between mathematics and architecture
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Date of publication Dec 21, 2003 Category: Commentary
Telling mathematics in a comic strip
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Date of publication Dec 21, 2003 Category: Commentary
Évariste Galois, a tragic romantic hero
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Date of publication Sep 21, 2002 Category: Article
How computers affected the humanities
This paper is concerned with the interactions between information technology and the humanities, and focuses on how the humanities have changed since adopting computers. The debate among humanists on the subject initially focuses on the alleged methodological changes brought about by the introduction of computing technology. It subsequently analyses the changes in research that were caused by IT not directly but indirectly, as a consequence of the changes effected on society as a whole. After briefly summarising the history of the interactions between information technology and the humanities, the paper draws on literature to examine the way humanists have perceived the evolution of their disciplines. The paper concludes by fitting the phenomenon into a model of scientific revolution.
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