The making of Copernicus : early modern transformations of the scientist and his science / edited by Wolfgang Neuber, Thomas Rahn, and Claus Zittel.
Contributor(s): Neuber, Wolfgang [editor.]
| Rahn, Thomas [editor.] | Zittel, Claus [editor.]
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TextLanguage: English, German Series: Intersections (Boston, Mass.): v. 36.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xv, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004281103 (hardback : alk. paper); 900428110X (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 | Astronomers -- Poland -- Biography | Astronomy -- History | Astronomy -- Miscellanea | Planetary scienceDDC classification: 520.92 | B LOC classification: QB36.C8 | M25 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Local Note: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) grant.Differentiable Local Note: | Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Mostly in English; chapter 7 in German.
AAAS Science for Seminaries program.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the making of Copernicus / Wolfgang Neuber, Thomas Rahn, Claus Zittel -- The decline of medieval disputation culture and the 'Wittenberg interpretation of the Copernican theory' / Stefan Kirschner and Andreas Kühne -- The silence of the wolves, or, why it took the Holy Inquisition seventy-three years to ban Copernicanism / Gereon Wolters -- A natural history of the heavens: Francis Bacon's anti-Copernicanism / Dana Jalobeanu -- Hume's Copernican turn / Tamás Demeter -- Arguing for one's world: Copernicus's theories and their reception in Jean Bodin's Theatrum / Jonathan Schüz -- Writing after Copernicus: epistemology and poetics in Giordano Bruno's Ash Wednesday Supper / Steffen Schneider -- Die Erde als Mond. Kopernikanische Wenden in Raumreiseerzählungen des 17. Jahrhunderts (Kepler, Godwin, Cyrano de Bergerac) / Thomas Rahn -- Cosmology after Copernicus: decentralisation of the sun and the plurality of worlds in French engravings / Lucía Ayala -- Timid mathematicians vs. daring explorers of the infinite cosmos: Giordano Bruno, literary self-fashioning and de revolutionibus orbium coelestium / Sergius Kodera -- "Copernicus found a treasure the true value of which he did not know at all": the Life of Copernicus by Pierre Gassendi / Claus Zittel -- Hero of the Bourgeois world: Copernicus and his afterlife in German literature / Wolfgang Neuber -- Max Brod: Tycho Brahes Weg zu Gott / Jörg Jungmayr.
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) grant.