03729nam 2200649 a 450 991046030100332120200520144314.01-283-05836-797866130583620-226-46926-310.7208/9780226469263(CKB)2670000000067049(EBL)648141(OCoLC)701704588(SSID)ssj0000467234(PQKBManifestationID)11290573(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467234(PQKBWorkID)10484769(PQKB)11604216(MiAaPQ)EBC648141(DE-B1597)535517(OCoLC)1135589150(DE-B1597)9780226469263(Au-PeEL)EBL648141(CaPaEBR)ebr10442157(CaONFJC)MIL305836(EXLCZ)99267000000006704919940217d1994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBetween Copernicus and Galileo[electronic resource] Christoph Clavius and the collapse of Ptolemaic cosmology /James M. LattisChicago University of Chicago Press19941 online resource (316 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-46929-8 0-226-46927-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-284) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Note on Editions, Quotations, Translations, and Names -- One. Clavius's Astronomical Work and Life -- Two. Jesuit Mathematics and Ptolemaic Astronomy -- Three. The Defense of Ptolemaic Cosmology -- Four. The Rival Cosmologies -- Five. Cosmological Debate and the Rebuttal of Copernicus -- Six. Strains on Ptolemaic Cosmology, Inside and Out -- Seven. Galileo, Tycho, and the Fate of the Celestial Spheres -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexBetween Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the standards by which Galileo's famous claims appeared so radical, and whose teachings guided the intellectual and scientific agenda of the Church in the central years of the Scientific Revolution. Though relatively unknown today, Clavius was enormously influential throughout Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through his astronomy books-the standard texts used in many colleges and universities, and the tools with which Descartes, Gassendi, and Mersenne, among many others, learned their astronomy. James Lattis uses Clavius's own publications as well as archival materials to trace the central role Clavius played in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian natural philosophy into an orthodox cosmology. Although Clavius strongly resisted the new cosmologies of Copernicus and Tycho, Galileo's invention of the telescope ultimately eroded the Ptolemaic world view. By tracing Clavius's views from medieval cosmology the seventeenth century, Lattis illuminates the conceptual shift from Ptolemaic to Copernican astronomy and the social, intellectual, and theological impact of the Scientific Revolution.Cosmology, MedievalAstronomy, MedievalElectronic books.Cosmology, Medieval.Astronomy, Medieval.523.1UB 2480rvkLattis James M975585MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460301003321Between Copernicus and Galileo2221437UNINA