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Setting Aside All Authority : Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo /
"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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Notre Dame, Indiana :
University of Notre Dame Press,
2015.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.