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        Date: 2023-11-03 15:49:37+00:00
        From: James Rovira <jamesrovira@gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.286: clues to what is left behind

The reading recommendations here are always very good. I'm curious if
Ginzburg refers to Hegel's critique of empirical science as being
"uncritical" (if I recall) in *Science of Logic*? Very tentative question
here, as I haven't read the source in some years.

Jim R

On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 2:58 AM Humanist <humanist@dhhumanist.org> wrote:

> Here he quotes Galileo, from Il Saggiatore, on the "figures, numbers and
> movements" that the natural philosopher considers worthy of
> attention, "but not smell, nor tastes, nor sounds, which I do not believe
> are anything more than names outside the living animal." "With these
> words", Ginzburg comments, "Galileo set natural science on the anti-
> anthropocentric and anti-anthropomorphic direction which it would never
> again abandon. A gap had opened in that world of knowledge, one
> destined to enlarge with the passing of time. And, to be sure, there could
> be no greater contrast than between the Galileian physicist professionally
> deaf to sounds and insensitive to tastes and odors, and his contemporary,
> the physician, who hazarded diagnoses by placing his ear on wheezy
> chests or by sniffing at feces and tasting urine."
> (Ginzburg, Clues, Myths and the Historical Method (Johns Hopkins, 1989),
> pp. 107f)
>
> --
Dr. James Rovira <http://www.jamesrovira.com/>

   - *David Bowie and Romanticism
   <https://jamesrovira.com/2022/09/02/david-bowie-and-romanticism/>*,
   Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
   - *Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism
   <https://www.routledge.com/Women-in-Rock-Women-in-Romanticism-The-
Emancipation-of-Female-Will/Rovira/p/book/9781032069845>*,
   Routledge, 2023


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