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]
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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]
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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (347 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 520.92 |
| Soggetto topico: | Astronomers - Poland |
| Astronomy - History | |
| Astronomy | |
| Planetology | |
| Altri autori: |
NeuberWolfgang
RahnThomas
ZittelClaus
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| Persona (resp. second.): | AyalaLucia |
| 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, |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The making of Copernicus |
| ISBN: | 90-04-28112-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827072203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; ; Volume 36.