Cesare Cremonini 1550 – 1631
Cesare Cremonini (1550 – 1631) was an Italian philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Peripatetic School, Renaissance, and Early Modern Philosophy.
Cesare Cremonini was an Italian philosopher, professor at the University of Padua for more than forty years, and the most prominent academic Aristotelian of his age. A friend and colleague of Galileo, he is remembered for his refusal to look through Galileo's telescope, on the principle that what could not be derived from Aristotle could not be drawn from nature. His De anima, De caelo, and De quinta caeli substantia developed a strict naturalist Aristotelianism in which the soul is mortal and the heavens are made of an incorruptible fifth element, doctrines that the Inquisition repeatedly investigated but, under the protection of the Republic of Venice, never succeeded in silencing.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Italian
- Era
- Modern
- Movements
- Peripatetic School, Renaissance, Early Modern Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Cesare Cremonini:
“What cannot be drawn from Aristotle cannot be drawn from nature.”
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Attributed to Cesare Cremonini:
“The soul is the form of the body, and what is the form of the body cannot survive its dissolution.”
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Attributed to Cesare Cremonini:
“The heavens are made of a fifth element, incorruptible and unchanging.”
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Attributed to Cesare Cremonini:
“Demonstration must begin in sense, but it may not end there.”
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Attributed to Cesare Cremonini:
“He who wishes to philosophize freely must first secure the favor of a free city.”
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