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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786611803321

Autore

Omodeo Pietro Daniel

Titolo

Copernicus in the cultural debates of the Renaissance : reception, legacy, transformation / / by Pietro Daniel Omodeo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-25450-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (447 p.)

Collana

History of Science and Medicine Library. Medieval and Early Modern Science, , 1567-8393 ; ; Volume 45

Medieval and Early Modern Science ; ; Volume 23

Disciplina

509.4/09031

Soggetti

Science, Renaissance

Science - History - 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 1616. Relying on a detailed investigation of early modern sources, the author systematically examines a series of issues ranging from computation to epistemology, natural philosophy, theology and ethics. In addition to offering a pluralistic and interdisciplinary perspective on post-Copernican astronomy, the study goes beyond purely cosmological and geometrical issues and engages in a wide-ranging discussion of how Copernicus’s legacy interacted



with European culture and how his image and theories evolved as a result.