Between Copernicus and Galileo : Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology.

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Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the standards by which Galileo's famous claims appeared so radical, and whose teachings guided the intellectual and scientific agenda of the Church in the central years of t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lattis, James M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Temas:
Clavius, Christoph, > 1538-1612.
Ptolemy, > active 2nd century.
Clavius, Christoph, > 1538-1612
Ptolemy, > active 2nd century
Cosmology, Medieval.
Astronomy, Medieval.
Cosmologie médiévale.
Astronomie médiévale.
Astronomy, Medieval
Cosmology, Medieval
christoph clavius, jesuit, science, astronomy, heresy, catholic church, scientific revolution, mersenne, descartes, gassendi, cosmology, natural philosophy, aristotle, ptolemy, tycho, copernicus, telescope, planets, sun, orbit, universe, heliocentric, nonfiction, history, theology, medieval, celestial spheres, mathematics, discovery, instruments, observation, religion.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the standards by which Galileo's famous claims appeared so radical, and whose teachings guided the intellectual and scientific agenda of the Church in the central years of the Scientific Revolution. Though relatively unknown today, Clavius was enormously influential throughout Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through his astronomy books--the standard texts used in many colleges and universities, and the tools with which Descartes, Gassendi, and Me.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (316 pages)
ISBN:9780226469263
0226469263

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