Copernicus in the cultural debates of the Renaissance : : reception, legacy, transformation / / by Pietro Daniel Omodeo.
In Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance , Pietro Daniel Omodeo presents a general overview of the reception of Copernicus’s astronomical proposal from the years immediately preceding the publication of De revolutionibus (1543) to the Roman prohibition of heliocentric hypotheses in 1...
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| Superior document: | History of Science and Medicine Library. Medieval and Early Modern Science, Volume 45 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ;
Volume 45. History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ; Volume 23. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (447 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- 1 Copernicus between 1514 and 1616: An Overview
- 2 Astronomy at the Crossroads of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Epistemology
- 3 Beyond Computation: Copernican Ephemerists on Hypotheses, Astrology and Natural Philosophy
- 4 A Finite and Infinite Sphere: Reinventing Cosmological Space
- 5 A Ship-Like Earth: Reconceptualizing Motion
- 6 A priori and a posteriori: Two Approaches to Heliocentrism
- 7 The Bible versus Pythagoras: The End of an Epoch
- 8 Laughing at Phaeton’s Fall: A New Man
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Places.