Alessio Mattana
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessio Mattana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessio |
| FAMILY NAME | Mattana |
| SIGNATURE | MATTANA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7416-2844 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Christian and the Philosopher
This article examines the scientific background of Daniel Defoe's The Storm (1704). This work is a collection of letters on the Great Storm, a tempest which battered the south of England on 26–27 November 1703 causing casualties in the thousands and extensive damage. Like other extreme natural phenomena, the Great Storm was interpreted by many as divine warning. This article argues that, differently to Defoe's other works on the Great Storm, The …
The Modest Genius
This essay examines the myth of Isaac Newton's modesty in eighteenth-century Britain. By analyzing both primary sources by and on Newton and scholarship on the concept of “modest witnessing,” this essay argues that a number of actors concerned with Newton's public relevance progressively divested his scientific ideas of mathematics with the goal of smoothing their dogmatic edges and making them more accessible to the polite public. This process, …
The Eye to the Object”
This article examines Daniel Defoe's The Consolidator (1705), a prose fiction work on a voyage to China and to the moon, from the perspective of science in the early eighteenth century. By analysing the references to experimental inventions in the text and reconstructing their scientific background, this essay argues that in The Consolidator Defoe creates a fictional space in which readers can familiarise themselves with the epistemological ramif…
Antiquitas non fingo
In his posthumous The Chronology of the Ancient Kingdoms Amended (1728) Isaac Newton re‐dated a number of significant events in ancient history, most importantly the Argonautic expedition and the Fall of Troy. This article explores the eighteenth‐century reception of the Chronology as a text contiguous with Newton's previous works on natural philosophy. In particular, it will be argued that the Chronology was considered as proof that the moderns …
Introduction
The Allure of Synthesis
This article offers a reconstruction of the scientific lineage of comparative and world literature. It will be argued that the approaches by Philarète Chasles and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were influenced by the meaning of ‘comparative’ developed in scientific texts in the long eighteenth century. Building on the assumption that literature may be made into a hard science, a number of nineteenth-century comparatists then sought to elaborate synth…
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Antiquitas non fingo
In his posthumous The Chronology of the Ancient Kingdoms Amended (1728) Isaac Newton re‐dated a number of significant events in ancient history, most importantly the Argonautic expedition and the Fall of Troy. This article explores the eighteenth‐century reception of the Chronology as a text contiguous with Newton's previous works on natural philosophy. In particular, it will be argued that the Chronology was considered as proof that the moderns …
Introduction
The Allure of Synthesis
This article offers a reconstruction of the scientific lineage of comparative and world literature. It will be argued that the approaches by Philarète Chasles and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were influenced by the meaning of ‘comparative’ developed in scientific texts in the long eighteenth century. Building on the assumption that literature may be made into a hard science, a number of nineteenth-century comparatists then sought to elaborate synth…
The Modest Genius
This essay examines the myth of Isaac Newton's modesty in eighteenth-century Britain. By analyzing both primary sources by and on Newton and scholarship on the concept of “modest witnessing,” this essay argues that a number of actors concerned with Newton's public relevance progressively divested his scientific ideas of mathematics with the goal of smoothing their dogmatic edges and making them more accessible to the polite public. This process, …
The Eye to the Object”
This article examines Daniel Defoe's The Consolidator (1705), a prose fiction work on a voyage to China and to the moon, from the perspective of science in the early eighteenth century. By analysing the references to experimental inventions in the text and reconstructing their scientific background, this essay argues that in The Consolidator Defoe creates a fictional space in which readers can familiarise themselves with the epistemological ramif…
The Christian and the Philosopher
This article examines the scientific background of Daniel Defoe's The Storm (1704). This work is a collection of letters on the Great Storm, a tempest which battered the south of England on 26–27 November 1703 causing casualties in the thousands and extensive damage. Like other extreme natural phenomena, the Great Storm was interpreted by many as divine warning. This article argues that, differently to Defoe's other works on the Great Storm, The …
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