TY - JOUR
T1 - Aristóteles en el Banquillo
T2 - El prólogo al Libro del Nuevo Cometa de Jerónimo Muñoz
AU - Schmelzer, Felix K.E.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The epistolary prologue to Jeronimo Muñoz' Libro del nuevo cometa (1573) is the first resolute refutation of the Aristotelian paradigm in Spain. It is primarily a rhetorical procedure: the Valencian astronomer and hebraist makes use of elaborated argumentative and stylistic strategies that create the image of an 'Aristotle in the dock' who, at the end of the discourse, is declared guilty of ignorance with respect to astronomic subjects. In that way, Muñoz creates an argumentative basis for propagating his new cosmology. An analysis of the central passages of this historic refutatio not only reveals the importance of rhetoric in the scientific discourse of the Spanish golden age, but also its central role in the process of a paradigm shift in the scientific world view.
AB - The epistolary prologue to Jeronimo Muñoz' Libro del nuevo cometa (1573) is the first resolute refutation of the Aristotelian paradigm in Spain. It is primarily a rhetorical procedure: the Valencian astronomer and hebraist makes use of elaborated argumentative and stylistic strategies that create the image of an 'Aristotle in the dock' who, at the end of the discourse, is declared guilty of ignorance with respect to astronomic subjects. In that way, Muñoz creates an argumentative basis for propagating his new cosmology. An analysis of the central passages of this historic refutatio not only reveals the importance of rhetoric in the scientific discourse of the Spanish golden age, but also its central role in the process of a paradigm shift in the scientific world view.
KW - Aristotle in Spain
KW - Libro del nuevo cometa
KW - Muñoz
KW - Paradigm shift
KW - Rhetoric and Science
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U2 - 10.14195/1645-2259-15-5
DO - 10.14195/1645-2259-15-5
M3 - Review article
VL - 15
SP - 97
EP - 108
JO - Revista de Historia da Sociedade e da Cultura
JF - Revista de Historia da Sociedade e da Cultura
SN - 1645-2259
ER -