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Copernicus in the cultural debates of the Renaissance : reception, legacy, transformation /
In Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance, Pietro Daniel Omodeo assesses how Copernican astronomy interacted with European culture and examines topics ranging from computation to epistemology, natural philosophy, theology and ethics.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2014]
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| Colección: | History of science and medicine library ;
v. 45. History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ; v. 23. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 13 The Difficult Reconciliation between Copernicus and the Sacred Scripture14 Copernicus before and after 1616; 15 Summary of the Main Lines of the Early Reception of Copernicus; Chapter 2 Astronomy at the Crossroads of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Epistemology; 1 A Split Reception of Copernicus; 2 Copernicus Presents Himself as a Mathematician; 3 Cosmology and Mathematics in Copernicus's Commentariolus; 4 A Clash of Authorities: Averroist Criticism of Mathematical Astronomy; 5 Fracastoro's Homocentrism; 6 Amico on Celestial Motions; 7 Osiander's Theological Instructions.
- 8 Melanchthon's Approach to Nature9 Rheticus's Early "Realism"; 10 The Elder Rheticus and Pierre de la Ramée against the Astronomical Axiom; 11 Facts and Reasons in Astronomy according to Melanchthon and Reinhold; 12 Reinhold's Astronomy and Copernicus; 13 Epistemological Remarks on Reinhold's Terminology; 14 Peucer's Continuation of Reinhold's Program; 15 Wittich's Combinatory Games; 16 Brahe as the Culmination of the Wittenberg School; 17 Beyond Selective Reading; Chapter 3 Beyond Computation: Copernican Ephemerists on Hypotheses, Astrology and Natural Philosophy.
- 1 A Premise: Gemma Frisius as a Reader of Copernicus2 Frisius's Cosmological Commitment in Stadius's Ephemerides; 3 Stadius and Copernicus; 4 Ephemerides and Astrology; 5 Some Remarks on Rheticus's Challenge to Pico; 6 Giuntini's Post-Copernican Astrology; 7 Magini: Copernican Ephemerides, Astrology and Planetary Hypotheses; 8 A Dispute on the Reliability of Ephemerides in Turin; 9 Benedetti's Defense of Post-Copernican Ephemerides and Astrology; 10 Origanus's Planetary System; 11 Origanus's Arguments in Favor of Terrestrial Motion; 12 Conclusions.
- Chapter 4 A Finite and Infinite Sphere: Reinventing Cosmological Space1 The Finite Infinity of the World Revised; 2 Cusanus's Two Infinities; 3 Cusanus's Role in the Copernican Debate; 4 The Invention of Pythagorean Cosmology; 5 Pythagoreanism and Cosmological Infinity according to Digges; 6 The Infinity of Space and Worldly Finiteness as a Restoration of the Stoic Outlook; 7 Benedetti's Approach to the Copernican System; 8 Stoicism in Germany: Pegel's Cosmology; 9 Bruno's Pythagorean Correction of Copernicus's Planetary Model; 10 Bruno's Defense of Cosmological Infinity.