Introduzione al '600: una nuova concezione del tempo e dello spazio

In the 17th century, chemist Jean Baptiste van Helmont, to support the theory of spontaneous generation, proposed his recipe for "creating mice": Leave a dirty shirt or some rags in an open container, such as a pot or barrel, containing a few grains of wheat or feed, and in 21 days mice will appear. There will be adult male and female specimens capable of mating and reproducing other mice." Does his recipe make us smile (or disgust us)? Seventeenth-century science had yet to grapple with bizarre hypotheses like these, between the words of the Bible and the hypotheses of Aristotle, until some great names and Galileo's invention of the telescope and microscope changed the rules of the game, allowing the concept of expanded space and time, which gave rise to Baroque space. Scientific and philosophical premises are more necessary than ever to introduce us to the Caravaggio century of light and shadow. 00:00 The century of light and shadow 01:07 The plague, the Thirty Years' War, the Sun King 02:12 The Copernican revolution (Galileo and the decentralized man) 03:38 The expansion of space 04:16 Empirical and experimental science (vs. Aristotle and the Bible) 06:06 Trust in Progressive Science 6:44 Magnifying Glasses (Telescope and Microscope) 8:12 Trust in the Invisible (vs. Strong Visibility) 9:08 Infinite Space and the Open Forms of the Baroque 10:13 Infinitely Small (Imagination and Visibility) 11:29 1633 Galileo's Abjuration 12:48 Lenses as an Instrument of Deception (Middle Ages) 1:29 The Position of Scientists (Spanish Vipers) 2:32 The Plague and Contagion 3:50 Aristotle's Theory of Sea Water 5:15 The Origin of Life (Epigenesis, Pre-existence, Spontaneous Generation) 9:01 The Theory of Fossils (The Functional Landscape) 11:39 Fossils, Ruins of Time 12:15 Space and Infinite Time 12:41 Variety and the Baroque (and Inhabited Planets - Cosmotheoros by Christiaan Huygens) 3:48 PM Christiaan Huygens and the Pendulum Clock (1656), the Measurement of Time 10:01 PM Leonardo and the Stratification of the Earth 10:57 PM Newton (Universal Gravitation)