La vision du Soleil du moine capucin Valérien Magni (1586-1661), grand politicien ecclésiastique et critique de la philosophie aristotélicienne, varie en fonction de son adoption successive de l’héritage de Galilée. Le Soleil apparaît d’abord en tant que notion faisant partie de sa logique, où il figure dans des propositions telles que « Le Soleil brille » que Magni considère comme nécessairement valables. Ensuite, le Soleil réapparaît dans sa théorie de la connaissance, où il prend les phrases « Le Soleil brille » et « Le Soleil se meut » pour un « per se notum » sensoriel. En tant qu’héritier de l’illuminisme, Magni voit dans la lumière le principe épistémologique et ontologique clé et est partisan de « l’héliocentrisme métaphysique » propre à la Renaissance. Petit à petit, sous l’influence de ses expériences avec le vacuum qui ont confirmé la validité de la physique de Galilée, Magni s’oriente cependant aussi vers l’héliocentrisme cosmologique et tente de trouver des liens entre la métaphysique de la lumière et la physique de Galilée, qu’il considère toutes les deux en accord parfait avec le christianisme. * * * The concept of the Sun formulated by the Capuchin friar Valerianus Magni (1586-1661), a renowned religious politician and a critic of Aristotelian philosophy, varies in line with his progressive adoption of Galileo Galilei’s legacy. The Sun first appears as a notion forming part of his logic, where it arises in statements such as “The Sun shines.” which Magni considers to be an undeniable fact. It also re-emerges in his theory of knowledge, where the assertions “The Sun shines.” and “The Sun moves.” are considered sensory “per se notum”. As an heir to Illuminism, he regards light as the key epistemological and ontological principle, and is an advocate of the Renaissance theory called “Metaphysical Heliocentrism”. Gradually however, impressed by his successful vacuum experiments, which confirmed the validity of Galilean physics, Magni eventually also adopts Cosmological Heliocentrism and strives to find parallels between the metaphysics of light and Galilean physics, both of which he considers to be fully consistent with Christianity.
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