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The Making of Copernicus

Early Modern Transformations of a Scientist and His Science

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ISBN: 978-90-04-28110-3
Verlag: Brill
Erscheinungstermin: 16.10.2014
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All those interested in Copernicus, transformation of images, application of metaphors, history of science,


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  • Artikelnummer: 9789004281103
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-90-04-28110-3
  • Verlag: Brill
  • Erscheinungstermin: 16.10.2014
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2014
  • Serie: Intersections
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 658 g
  • Seiten: 332
  • Format (B x H x T): 160 x 239 x 18 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations

Introduction: The Making of Copernicus
WOLFGANG NEUBER, THOMAS RAHN, CLAUS ZITTEL

PART ONE

THE COPERNICAN TURN:
METHODOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND REJECTIONS

The Decline of Medieval Disputation Culture and the ‘Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory’
STEFAN KIRSCHNER, ANDREAS KÜHNE

The Silence of the Wolves, Or, Why it Took the Holy Inquisition Seventy-Three Years to Ban Copernicanism
GEREON WOLTERS

A Natural History of the Heavens: Francis Bacon’s Anti-Copernicanism
DANA JALOBEANU

Hume’s Copernican Turn
TAMÁS DEMETER

PART TWO

NEW ASTRONOMY: TEXTUAL AND GRAPHIC TRANSFORMATIONS

Arguing for One’s World. Copernicus’s Theories and Their Reception in Jean Bodins Theatrum
JONATHAN SCHÜZ

Writing after Copernicus. Epistemology and Poetics in Giordano Bruno’s Ash Wednesday Supper
STEFFEN SCHNEIDER

Die Erde als Mond. Kopernikanische Wenden in Raumreiserzählungen des 17. Jahrhunderts (Kepler, Godwin, Cyrano de Bergerac)
THOMAS RAHN

Decentralisation of the Sun as Beginning of Modernity. The Transition from Copernicanism to the Plurality of Worlds in French Engravings
LUCÍA AYALA

PART THREE

NEW ASTRONOMERS: BIOGRAPHICAL TRANSFORMATIONS

Timid Mathematicians vs. Daring Explorers of the Infinite Cosmos: Giordano Bruno, Literary Self-Fashioning and De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
SERGIUS KODERA

‘Copernicus Found a Treasure the True Value of Which He Did Not Know at All’. The Life of Copernicus by Pierre Gassendi
CLAUS ZITTEL

Hero of the Bourgeois World. Copernicus and His Afterlife in German Literature
WOLFGANG NEUBER

Max Brod: Tycho Brahes Weg zu Gott
JÖRG JUNGMAYR

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