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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827072203321

Titolo

The making of Copernicus : early modern transformations of the scientist and his science / / edited by Wolfgang Neuber, Thomas Rahn and Claus Zittel ; contributors, Lucia Ayala [and nine others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-28112-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 p.)

Collana

Intersections, , 1568-1181 ; ; Volume 36

Altri autori (Persone)

NeuberWolfgang

RahnThomas

ZittelClaus

Disciplina

520.92

Soggetti

Astronomers - Poland

Astronomy - History

Astronomy

Planetology

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: The Making of Copernicus / Wolfgang Neuber , Thomas Rahn and Claus Zittel -- 1 The Decline of Medieval Disputation Culture and the ‘Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory’ / Stefan Kirschner and Andreas Kühne -- 2 The Silence of the Wolves, Or, Why It Took the Holy Inquisition Seventy-Three Years to Ban Copernicanism / Gereon Wolters -- 3 A Natural History of the Heavens: Francis Bacon’s Anti-Copernicanism / Dana Jalobeanu -- 4 Hume’s Copernican Turn / Tamás Demeter -- 5 Arguing for One’s World. Copernicus’s Theories and Their Reception in Jean Bodin’s Theatrum / Jonathan Schüz -- 6 Writing after Copernicus: Epistemology and Poetics in Giordano Bruno’s Ash Wednesday Supper / Steffen Schneider -- 7 Die Erde als Mond. Kopernikanische Wenden in Raumreiseerzählungen des 17. Jahrhunderts (Kepler, Godwin, Cyrano de Bergerac) / Thomas Rahn -- 8 Cosmology after Copernicus: Decentralisation of the Sun and the Plurality of Worlds in French



Engravings / Lucía Ayala -- 9 Timid Mathematicians vs. Daring Explorers of the Infinite Cosmos: Giordano Bruno, Literary Self-Fashioning and De revolutionibus orbium coelestium / Sergius Kodera -- 10 “Copernicus Found a Treasure the True Value of Which He Did Not Know at All”. The Life of Copernicus by Pierre Gassendi / Claus Zittel -- 11 Hero of the Bourgeois World. Copernicus and His Afterlife in German Literature / Wolfgang Neuber -- 12 Max Brod: Tycho Brahes Weg zu Gott / Jörg Jungmayr -- Index Nominum.

Sommario/riassunto

All those interested in Copernicus, transformation of images, application of metaphors, history of science,