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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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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] Visualizza cluster
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  
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 90-04-28112-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788089103321
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Serie: Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; ; Volume 36.