LEADER 04067nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910814485303321 005 20240513170113.0 010 $a1-283-05836-7 010 $a9786613058362 010 $a0-226-46926-3 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226469263 035 $a(CKB)2670000000067049 035 $a(EBL)648141 035 $a(OCoLC)701704588 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000467234 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11290573 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467234 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10484769 035 $a(PQKB)11604216 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC648141 035 $a(DE-B1597)535517 035 $a(OCoLC)1135589150 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226469263 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL648141 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10442157 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL305836 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000067049 100 $a19940217d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBetween Copernicus and Galileo $eChristoph Clavius and the collapse of Ptolemaic cosmology /$fJames M. Lattis 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d1994 215 $a1 online resource (316 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-226-46929-8 311 0 $a0-226-46927-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-284) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tNote on Editions, Quotations, Translations, and Names --$tOne. Clavius's Astronomical Work and Life --$tTwo. Jesuit Mathematics and Ptolemaic Astronomy --$tThree. The Defense of Ptolemaic Cosmology --$tFour. The Rival Cosmologies --$tFive. Cosmological Debate and the Rebuttal of Copernicus --$tSix. Strains on Ptolemaic Cosmology, Inside and Out --$tSeven. Galileo, Tycho, and the Fate of the Celestial Spheres --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aBetween 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. 606 $aCosmology, Medieval 606 $aAstronomy, Medieval 610 $achristoph clavius, jesuit, science, astronomy, heresy, catholic church, scientific revolution, mersenne, descartes, gassendi, cosmology, natural philosophy, aristotle, ptolemy, tycho, copernicus, telescope, planets, sun, orbit, universe, heliocentric, nonfiction, history, theology, medieval, celestial spheres, mathematics, discovery, instruments, observation, religion. 615 0$aCosmology, Medieval. 615 0$aAstronomy, Medieval. 676 $a523.1 686 $aUB 2480$2rvk 700 $aLattis$b James M$01665835 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814485303321 996 $aBetween Copernicus and Galileo$94024705 997 $aUNINA