Galileo e il «dottor Bozio». Note sull’antiaristotelismo del Saggiatore

In relation to the character dottor Bozio , a fictional figure within Iacopo Soldani's satirical composition Against the Peripatetics, the article proposes interpreting Galileo's The Assayer through an anti-Bozian lens. This suggests viewing it as a text that adeptly captured common aspirations for the renewal of knowledge, infused with ethical and political significance. While The Assayer undoubtedly emerged from a controversy involving individuals with varied dispositions, each more or less cognizant of the dynamics of power and patronage prevalent in their milieu, it would be reductionist to attribute the genesis and aims of the work solely to these factors. Importantly, The Assayer also stands as a scientific endeavor whose significance warrants reevaluation, particularly in its potential impact on subsequent discussions on comets involving Copernican astronomers.