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PROSA SCIENTIFICA E STILE NEL SAGGIATORE DI GALILEO GALILEI
Scientific prose and style in II Saggiatore by Galileo Galilei

Author(s): Denisa-Alexandra Ionescu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: scientific prose; argument; demonstration

Summary/Abstract: Galileo Galilei is one of the personalities who have marked the evolution of mankind from a scientific point of view. However, there are very few people who pay attention to his literary creation and to the fact that he introduced the scientific language into literature. He was the first to be interested in the propagation of culture and, especially that of science, which until then had been accessible only to the elite.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 73-81
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Italian
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