Setting aside all authority : Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the science against Copernicus in the age of Galileo /

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"Setting Aside All Authority is an important account and analysis of seventeenth-century scientific arguments against the Copernican system. Christopher M. Graney challenges the long-standing ideas that opponents of the heliocentric ideas of Copernicus and Galileo were primarily motivated by re...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Graney, Christopher M., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2015.
Temas:
Copernicus, Nicolaus, > 1473-1543.
Riccioli, Giovanni Battista, > 1598-1671.
1600-1699
Science > Italy > History > 17th century.
Astronomy > Italy > History > 17th century.
Jesuit scientists > Italy > Biography.
Astronomers > Italy > Biography.
Sciences > Italie > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Astronomie > Italie > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Scientifiques jésuites > Italie > Biographies.
Astronomes > Italie > Biographies.
SCIENCE > Astronomy.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
SCIENCE > History.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
HISTORY > Europe > Italy.
Astronomers.
Astronomy.
Jesuit scientists.
Science.
Italy.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Giovanni Battista Riccioli's New Almagest
  • The Universe that Riccioli Saw
  • The Anti-Copernican Astronomer
  • Stars and Adventitious Rays
  • Science against Copernicus, God's Starry Armies for Copernicus
  • Jesuits on the Tower
  • 126 Arguments
  • An Angel and a Cannon
  • The Telescope against Copernicus
  • It Can No Longer Be Called "False and Absurd"
  • Appendix A: A Rendition into English of Monsignor Ingoli's 1616 Essay to Galileo
  • Appendix B: A Rendition into English of Giovanni Battista Riccioli's reports regarding his experiments with falling bodies and with the effect of air resistance on falling bodies.

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