Cesare Cremonini (philosopher)

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Cesare Cremonini

Cesare Cremonini ( Latinized Cæsar Cremoninus or Cæsar Cremonius ; * December 22, 1550 in Cento , † July 19, 1631 in Padua ) was an Italian professor of natural philosophy . Along with Jacopo Zabarella, he is one of the most important representatives of Venetian Aristotelianism ( Paduan school of philosophy).

Life

He graduated from the University of Ferrara . At the age of 21 he was appointed professor of philosophy there. After seventeen years in Ferrara, he moved to the University of Padua in 1591 as the successor to Jacopo Zabarella “ in secundo loco ” , at that time one of the most renowned in Europe. In 1601 Cremonini followed Francesco Piccolomini "in primo loco" and held this chair until his death. He was friends with Galileo Galilei , professor of mathematics in Padua from 1592 to 1610. Cremonini is mainly known to this day because he refused to look at the moons of Jupiter through the telescope constructed by Galileo, on the grounds that this look "could only confuse his head" because Aristotle refuted it. Cremonini represented an averroistic interpreted Aristotelian natural science. He was therefore considered to be "Aristotle resurrected" in his time. Cremonini died of the plague .

Student (selection)

  • William Harvey (1578–1657), English physician and anatomist (discoverer of the circulatory system), graduated from Cremonini in 1602
  • Joachim Jungius (1587–1657), German mathematician and philosopher, graduated from Cremonini in 1619
  • Ioannis Kottounios (1572–1657), Greek philosopher, successor to Cremonini in Padua
  • Justus Lipsius (1547–1606), Dutch legal philosopher
  • Gabriel Naudé (1600–1653), French, librarian to Cardinal Jules Mazarin , Cremonini pupil from 1625 to 1627
  • Guy Patin (1601–1672), French doctor, head of the medical school in Paris
  • Antonio Rocco (1586–1653), Italian philosophy teacher and writer
  • Corfitz Ulfeldt (1606–1664), Danish statesman, Cremonini student in Padua from 1628 to 1629

Publications (selection)

  • Explanatio proœmii librorum Aristotelis De physico auditu (1596)
  • De formis elementorum (1605)
  • De Anima (1611)
  • Disputatio de cœlo (1613)
  • De quinta cœli substantia (1616)
  • De calido innato (1626)
  • De origine et principatu membrorum (1627)
  • De semine (1634)
  • De calido innato et semine (1634)
  • De sensibus et facultate appetitiva (1634)
  • Dialectica (1663)

literature

  • Domenico Berti : Di Cesare Cremonino e della sua controversia con l'Inquisizione di Padova e di Roma. Nota. In: Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei. Memorie della classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche. 3. Ser., 2, 1877/1978, ISSN  0391-8149 , pp. 273-299 (also special print: Salviucci, Rome 1878).
  • Antonio Favaro: Cesare Cremonino e lo studio di Padova. A proposito di un recente libro di Leopoldo Mabilleau. Osservazioni. In: Archivio Veneto . 2. Ser., 25, 2, 1883, ZDB -ID 127304-8 , pp. 430–450 (also special print: Visentini, Venice 1883).
  • Heinrich C. Kuhn: Venetian Aristotelianism in the end of the Aristotelian world. Aspects of the world and thought of Cesare Cremonini (1550–1631). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1996, ISBN 3-631-49354-1 ( European university publications . Series 20: Philosophy 490), (At the same time: Munich, Univ., Diss., 1992).
  • Leopold Mabilleau: Etude historique sur la philosophie de la Renaissance en Italie. Cesare Cremonini. Librairie Hachette, Paris 1881.
  • Charles B. Schmitt: Cesare Cremonini. Un aristotelico al tempo di Galileo. Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani , Venice 1980 ( Centro tedesco di studi veneziani. Quaderni 16, ZDB -ID 193669-4 ).
  • Maria Assunta del Torre: La cosmologia di Cremonini e l'inedito "De coeli efficentia". In: Rivista critica di storia della filosofia. 21, 1966, ISSN  0035-581X , pp. 373-397.
  • Maria Assunta del Torre: Studi sù Cesare Cremonini. Cosmologia e logica nel tardo aristotelismo padovano. Antenore, Padua 1968 ( Università di Padova. Centro per la storia della tradizione aristotelica nel Veneto. Saggi e testi. 7, ZDB -ID 1101708-9 ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Paduan Aristotelians developed logic into a research method for physics.
  2. ↑ Due to the principle of competition, the chairs in Padua were usually assigned in two hierarchies: “in promo loco” (first place) to foreign scholars, “in secundo loco” (second place) to locals.
  3. ↑ Theologische Realenzyklopädie , Vol. 5, 1980, p. 60
  4. ↑ Philosophengalerie, Philosophical Institute of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Department for Philosophy of Science
personal data
SURNAME Cremonini, Cesare
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cremonino, Cesare; Cremoninus, Cæsar; Cremonius, Cæsar; Cremonini, Cæsaris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian natural philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1550
PLACE OF BIRTH Cento , Ferrara Province, Italy
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1631
Place of death Padua