Copernicus in the cultural debates of the Renaissance : reception, legacy, transformation /
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| Author / Creator: | Omodeo, Pietro Daniel, author. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014] ©2014 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 433 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of science and medicine library ; volume 45 Medieval and early modern science, 1567-8393 ; volume 23 History of science and medicine library ; v. 45. History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ; v. 23. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11276536 |
Table of Contents:
- 13 The Difficult Reconciliation between Copernicus and the Sacred Scripture14 Copernicus before and after 1616; 15 Summary of the Main Lines of the Early Reception of Copernicus; Chapter 2 Astronomy at the Crossroads of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Epistemology; 1 A Split Reception of Copernicus; 2 Copernicus Presents Himself as a Mathematician; 3 Cosmology and Mathematics in Copernicus's Commentariolus; 4 A Clash of Authorities: Averroist Criticism of Mathematical Astronomy; 5 Fracastoro's Homocentrism; 6 Amico on Celestial Motions; 7 Osiander's Theological Instructions.
- 8 Melanchthon's Approach to Nature9 Rheticus's Early "Realism"; 10 The Elder Rheticus and Pierre de la Ramée against the Astronomical Axiom; 11 Facts and Reasons in Astronomy according to Melanchthon and Reinhold; 12 Reinhold's Astronomy and Copernicus; 13 Epistemological Remarks on Reinhold's Terminology; 14 Peucer's Continuation of Reinhold's Program; 15 Wittich's Combinatory Games; 16 Brahe as the Culmination of the Wittenberg School; 17 Beyond Selective Reading; Chapter 3 Beyond Computation: Copernican Ephemerists on Hypotheses, Astrology and Natural Philosophy.
- 1 A Premise: Gemma Frisius as a Reader of Copernicus2 Frisius's Cosmological Commitment in Stadius's Ephemerides; 3 Stadius and Copernicus; 4 Ephemerides and Astrology; 5 Some Remarks on Rheticus's Challenge to Pico; 6 Giuntini's Post-Copernican Astrology; 7 Magini: Copernican Ephemerides, Astrology and Planetary Hypotheses; 8 A Dispute on the Reliability of Ephemerides in Turin; 9 Benedetti's Defense of Post-Copernican Ephemerides and Astrology; 10 Origanus's Planetary System; 11 Origanus's Arguments in Favor of Terrestrial Motion; 12 Conclusions.
- Chapter 4 A Finite and Infinite Sphere: Reinventing Cosmological Space1 The Finite Infinity of the World Revised; 2 Cusanus's Two Infinities; 3 Cusanus's Role in the Copernican Debate; 4 The Invention of Pythagorean Cosmology; 5 Pythagoreanism and Cosmological Infinity according to Digges; 6 The Infinity of Space and Worldly Finiteness as a Restoration of the Stoic Outlook; 7 Benedetti's Approach to the Copernican System; 8 Stoicism in Germany: Pegel's Cosmology; 9 Bruno's Pythagorean Correction of Copernicus's Planetary Model; 10 Bruno's Defense of Cosmological Infinity.