CULTURA E PATRIMONIO CULTURALE DELLO SPAZIO

The Humanities and social disciplines are constantly animated by epistemological and methodological pluralism
and differ in criteria, targets and methods of research. These disciplines are born in the world of ancient Greece.
However, it is interesting to observe how, in the historical development of knowledge, the Humanities have
worked on the resolution of problems related to knowledge, to guidelines of research and to definition of
methodologies for qualitative and quantitative evaluation.
Certainly the Italian Renaissance has marked a very important phase because in this epoch the human sciences
were considered fundamental and of support to the development of the science still in empirical phase. Even all
the scientific evolutions that we can record in the different historical eras have availing themselves of the
contribution of the humanities. The scientist has always been a great humanist. After decades of disciplinary
perimeters, we finally go back to thinking about the dialogue between Science and Humanities.
This paper aims to open a new research perspective that finds interesting feedback in the world of astronomy
and then beyond the Earth, where science, philosophy, history, art, theology help to trace new paths of study and
pursuing new, important knowledge for the future of humanity.