Science Meets Politics: Machiavelli's Influence and the Birth of Political Science /

Machiavelli's early influence was more penetrating than has ever been believed, and this book explains why. The surprising answer leads the reader into the depths of the history of science, connecting Machiavelli's thought to new ways of thinking about experience, history, nature, and poli...

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Main Author: Almási, Gábor (Author)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
History of European Political and Constitutional Thought ; 15.

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505 0 |t Acknowledgements -- Introduction --  1 On the Earliest Reception of Machiavelli's Ideas --  2 Machiavelli: More Than a Republican Hero --  3 Machiavelli and Early Modern 'Science' --  4 Machiavelli the 'Scientist'? --  5 The Structure and Rationale of This Book -- 1 What Was Science in Renaissance Florence? --  1 The Sciences and the Arts --  2 Medicine versus Law in Humanist Debates --  3 Res et Verba --  4 Science in the Florentine Chancery -- 2 Machiavelli's Science --  1 From Machiavelli's Letter to Becchi to the Discourse on Valdichiana --  2 The Ghiribizzi to Soderini --  3 Machiavelli's Correspondence with Vettori --  4 History and Reason --  5 Machiavelli's Historical Revolt --  6 The Perspective of Art --  7 Machiavelli's Language and Method --  8 Scientia, Authorities, and Humanism -- 3 Science and Method in Machiavelli's Early Reception --  1 Guicciardini on Machiavelli's Method --  2 Aristotelian Machiavelli / Machiavellian Aristotle? --  3 Aristotle's Method in the Politics --  4 The Question of Averroism --  5 Machiavelli's First Aristotelian-Averroist Enthusiast: Agostino Nifo --  6 Nifo's Plagiarism of The Prince --  7 Girolamo Cardano Reads Machiavelli --  8 Cardano's Views on Science -- 4 Experience, Reason, and History: Machiavelli Gains a Name for Himself --  1 Cardinal Pole Grapples with 'Experience' --  2 Machiavelli Read for Action --  3 Machiavelli's Science in Le Prince: Gaspar d'Auvergne and the Cappel Family --  4 Jacques Gohory's Microcosm and Macrocosm --  5 Science and Experience Meet historia: Machiavelli's Latin Translations --  6 Historia and Francesco Patrizi --  7 Machiavelli and the ars historica in France -- 5 Machiavelli Goes Underground and Triumphs --  1 The Tragedy of Saint Bartholomew --  2 Gentillet's Anti-Machiavel (1576) --  3 The Rise of a New Awareness --  4 A Wealth of Political Literature --  5 Machiavelli Triumphs in Language: the Medical Metaphors --  6 Machiavelli Triumphs in Genre: the Hippocratic Aphorisms -- 6 The Advancement of Politics and Science --  1 New Perspectives: the Global View --  2 Botero's Comparative Vision of Greatness --  3 The Perspective of Work and Action in Botero --  4 The Perspective of Work and Action in Bacon --  5 Facts, Information, and Numbers: New Knowledge for Politics --  6 Bacon's Science: Power and Happiness? -- 7 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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