The Copernican Question : Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order /
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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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2011.
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