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Back to SearchHoP 370 - Ingrid Rowland on Rome in the Renaissance
Episode 370
For our finale of the Italian Renaissance series we're joined by Ingrid Rowland, to speak about art, philosophy, and persecution in Renaissance Rome.
4 years, 11 months ago
HoP 369 - The Harder They Fall - Galileo and the Renaissance
Episode 369
Did Galileo’s scientific discoveries grow out of the culture of the Italian Renaissance?
4 years, 11 months ago
HoP 368 - Boundless Enthusiasm - Giordano Bruno
Episode 368
Giordano Bruno’s stunning vision of an infinite universe with infinite worlds, and his own untimely end.
5 years ago
HoP 367 - Brian Copenhaver on Renaissance Magic
Episode 367
Our guest Brian Copenhaver joins us to explain how Ficino and other Renaissance philosophers thought about magic.
5 years ago
HoP 366 - The Men Who Saw Tomorrow - Renaissance Magic and Astrology
Episode 366
Ficino, Pico, Cardano, and other Renaissance thinkers debate whether astrology and magic are legitimate sciences with a foundation in natural philoso…
5 years, 1 month ago
HoP 365 - Spirits in the Material World - Telesio and Campanella on Nature
Episode 364
Was the natural philosophy of Bernardino Telesio and Tommaso Campanella the first modern physical theory?
5 years, 1 month ago
HoP 364 - Guido Giglioni on Renaissance Medicine
Episode 365
An interview with Guido Giglioni, who speaks to us about the sources and philosophical implications of medical works of the Renaissance.
5 years, 2 months ago
HoP 363 - Man of Discoveries - Girolamo Cardano
Episode 363
The polymath Girolamo Cardano explores medicine, mathematics, philosophy of mind, and the interpretation of dreams.
5 years, 2 months ago
HoP 362 - Just What the Doctor Ordered - Renaissance Medicine
Episode 362
Connections between philosophy and advances in medicine, including the anatomy of Vesalius.
5 years, 3 months ago
HoP 361 - The Measure of All Things - Renaissance Mathematics and Art
Episode 360
The humanist study of Pythagoras, Archimides and other ancient mathematicians goes hand in hand with the use of mathematics in painting and architect…
5 years, 3 months ago