The Copernican question : prognostication, skepticism, and celestial order /

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In 1543, Copernicus defended his hypothesis that the Earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the centre of a finite universe. This volume reframes this pivotal moment in the history of science, centring the story on a conflict over the credibility of astrology that erupted in Italy just as...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Westman, Robert S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Colección:Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities imprint.
Temas:
Copernicus, Nicolaus, > 1473-1543.
Galilei, Galileo, > 1564-1642.
Kepler, Johannes, > 1571-1630.
Copernicus, Nicolaus, > 1473-1543
Galilei, Galileo, > 1564-1642
Kepler, Johannes, > 1571-1630
1500-1599
Astronomy, Renaissance > Europe > History > 16th century.
Science > Europe > Philosophy > History > 16th century.
Science > Philosophy > History > 16th century.
Astronomy, Renaissance > History > 16th century.
Astronomie de la Renaissance > Histoire > 16e siècle.
SCIENCE > Astronomy.
HISTORY > World.
Astronomy, Renaissance
Science > Philosophy
Receptie.
Europe
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Copernicus's Space of Possibilities; II: Confessional and Interconfessional Spaces of Prophecy and Prognostication; III: Accommodating Unanticipated, Singular Novelties; IV: Securing the Divine Plan; V: Conflicted Modernizers at the Turn of the Century; VI: The Modernizers, Recurrent Novelties, and Celestial Order; Conclusion: The Great Controversy; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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