Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance with Ovanes Akopyan

Episode 36 November 18, 2020 00:46:14
Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance with Ovanes Akopyan
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Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance with Ovanes Akopyan

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Show Notes

DEBATING THE STARS IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE WITH OVANES AKOPYAN

In this episode we talk with Ovanes Akopyan, post-doctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck. He has recently published the book with his PhD research: Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance. Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola’s Disputationes Adversus Astrologiam Divinatricem and Its Reception (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020). In the podcast we discuss his research into the role of Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola in the anti-astrological debate as well as other aspects of early modern history of science.

For more information on Ovanes Akopyan’s work, see: https://uibk.academia.edu/OvanesAkopyan

For his book see: https://brill.com/view/title/36397

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