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The Copernican question : prognostication, skepticism, and celestial order / Robert S. Westman.
LIBRA QB29 .W47 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Westman, Robert S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astronomy, Renaissance--Europe--History--16th century.
- Astronomy, Renaissance.
- Science--Europe--Philosophy--History--16th century.
- Science.
- History.
- Europe.
- Philosophy.
- Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
- Copernicus, Nicolaus.
- Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
- Galilei, Galileo.
- Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630.
- Kepler, Johannes.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 681 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Part I Copernicus's Space of Possibilities
- 1 The Literature of the Heavens and the Science of the Stars
- Printing, Planetary Theory, and the Genres of Forecast
- Copernicus's Exceptionalism
- Practices of Classifying Heavenly Knowledge and Knowledge Makers
- The Science of the Stars
- The Career of the Theorica/Practica Distinction
- Theoretical Astrology: From the Arabic to the Reformed, Humanist Tetrabiblos
- The Order of the Planets and Copernicus's Early Formation
- Copernicus's Problematic: The Unresolved Issues
- 2 Constructing the Future
- The Annual Prognostication
- The Popular Verse Prophecies
- Sites of Prognostication
- 3 Copernicus and the Crisis of the Bologna Prognosticators, 1496-1500
- The Bologna Period, 1496-1500: An Undisturbed View
- From the Krakow Collegium Maius to the Bologna Studium Generale
- Bologna and the "Horrible Wars of Italy"
- The Astrologers' War
- Pico against the Astrologers
- Domenico Maria Novara and Copernicus in the Bologna Culture of Prognostication
- Prognosticators, Humanists, and the Sedici
- Copernicus, Assistant and Witness
- The Averroists and the Order of Mercury and Venus
- Copernicus's Commentariolus or, Perhaps, the Theoric of Seven Postulates
- Copernicus, Pico, and De Revolutionibus
- Part II Confessional and Interconfessional Spaces of Prophecy and Prognostication
- 4 Between Wittenberg and Rome: The New System, Astrology, and the End of the World
- Introduction
- Melanchthon, Pico, and Naturalistic Divination
- Rheticus's Narratio Prima in the Wittenberg-Nuremberg Cultural Orbit
- World-Historical Prophecy and Celestial Revolutions
- Celestial Order and Necessity
- Necessity in the Consequent
- The Astronomy without Equants
- Principles versus Tables without Demonstrations
- The Publication of De Revolutionibus: Osiander's "Ad Lectorem"
- Holy Scripture and Celestial Order
- De Revolutionibus: Title and Prefatory Material
- The "Principal Consideration"
- 5 The Wittenberg Interpretation of Copernicus's Theory
- Melanchthon and the Science of the Stars at Wittenberg
- The Melanchthon Circle, Rheticus, and Albertine Patronage
- Rheticus, Melanchthon, and Copernicus: A Psychodynamic Hypothesis
- Erasmus Reinhold, Albrecht, and the Formation of the Wittenberg Interpretation
- The Prutenic Tables, Patronage, and the Organization of Heavenly Literature
- The Consolidation of the Wittenberg Interpretation
- The Advanced Curriculum at Wittenberg
- Germany as the "Nursery of Mathematics"
- Conclusion
- 6 Varieties of Astrological Credibility
- Marking the Dangers of Human Foreknowledge
- Becoming a Successful Prognosticator
- Multiplying Genitures
- From Wittenberg to Louvain: Astrological Credibility and the Copernican Question
- John Dee and Louvain: Toward an Optical Reformation of Astrology
- Jofrancus Offusius's Semi-Ptolemaic Solution to the Variation in Astral Powers
- Skirting the Margins of Dangerous Divination
- 7 Foreknowledge, Skepticism, and Celestial Order in Rome
- De Revolutionibus at the Papal Court: A Stillborn (Negative) Reaction
- The Holy Index and the Science of the Stars
- Making Orthodoxy: Learned Advice from Trent
- Astrology, Astronomy, and the Certitude of Mathematics in Post-Tridentine Heavenly Science
- The Jesuits' "Way of Proceeding": The Teaching Ministry, the Middle Sciences, Astrology, and Celestial Order
- Clavius on the Order of the Planets
- Disciplinary Tensions
- Astronomy in a Hexameral Genre: Robert Bellarmine
- Part III Accommodating Unanticipated, Singular Novelties
- 8 Planetary Order, Astronomical Reform, and the Extraordinary Course of Nature
- Astronomical Reform and the Interpretation of Celestial Signs
- The New Piconians
- Mistrusting Numbers
- The Rise of the Theoretical Astronomer and the "Science" of the New Star of 1572
- The Generic Location of the New Star
- Court Spaces and Networks: Uraniborg, Hapsburg Vienna and Prague
- Hagecius's Polemic on the New Star
- An Emergent Role for a Noble Astronomer: Tycho Brahe and the Copenhagen Oration
- Tycho and Pico, Generic and Named Adversaries
- The Tychonian Problematic, 1574
- A Tychonic Solution to Pico's Criticism? Naibod's Circumsolar Ordering of Mercury and Venus
- The Comet of 1577 and Its Discursive Space
- Astrological and Eschatological Meanings of Comets
- The Language, Syntax, and Credibility of Cometary Observation
- Place and Order, the Comet and the Cosmos: Gemma, Roeslin, Maestlin, and Brahe
- 9 The Second-Generation Copernicans: Maestlin and Digges
- Michael Maestlin (1550-1631): Pastor, Academic, Mathematicus, Copernican
- Maestlin's Hesitations about Astrology
- The Practice of Theorizing: Maestlin's Glosses on Copernicus
- Thomas Digges: Gentleman, Mathematical Practitioner, Platonist, Copernican
- Digges on Copernicus in Wings or Ladders
- (Re)Classifying the Star
- The Mathematicians' Court
- Reorganizing Copernicus
- Thomas Digges's Infinite Universe "Augmentation" in Leonard Digges's Prognostication Euerlastinge
- The Plummet Passage
- 10 A Proliferation of Readings
- The Emergence of a Via Media
- Along the Via Media: Tycho's Progress
- Negotiating the Spheres' Ontology
- Rothmann's Transformation and the First Copernican Controversy
- Giordano Bruno: "Academico di nulla Academia detto il Fastidito"
- Bruno's Visual, Pythagorean Reading of Copernicus
- Bruno and the Science of the Stars
- Part IV Securing the Divine Plan
- 11 The Emergence of Kepler's Copernican Representation
- The Copernican Situation at the End of the 1580s
- Counterfactual Kepler
- Kepler's Copernican Formation at Tübingen, 1590-1594
- Kepler's Shift in the Astronomer's Role
- Kepler's Physical-Astrological Problematic and Pico
- Dating Kepler's Encounter with Pico: A Tübingen Scenario?
- The Gold Nugget
- Prognosticating (and Theorizing) in Graz
- Kepler's Copernican Cosmography and Prognostication
- The Divine Plan, Archetypal Causes, and the Beginning of the World
- From Kepler's Polyhedral Hypothesis to the Logical and Astronomical Defense of Copernicus
- 12 Kepler's Early Audiences, 1596-1600
- The Mysterium Cosmographicum: The Space of Reception
- The Tübingen Theologians and the Duke
- The German Academic Mathematicians: Limnaeus and Praetorius
- Kepler's Mysterium and the Via Media Group
- Part V Conflicted Modernizers at the Turn of the Century
- 13 The Third-Generation Copernicans: Galileo and Kepler
- Galileo and the Science of the Stars in the Pisan Period
- Galileo and the Wittenberg and Uraniborg-Kassel Networks
- Galileo on Copernicus: The Exchange with Mazzoni
- Galileo and Kepler: The 1597 Exchange
- Galileo as a "Maestlinian"
- Paduan Sociabilities: The Pinelli Circle and the Edmund Bruce Episode, 1599-1605
- 1600: Bruno's Execution
- 1600: William Gilbert's Project for a Magnetical Philosophy
- The Quarrel among the Modernizers: New Convergences at the Fin de Siècle
- Galileo's Silence about Bruno
- Galileo's First Run-In with the Inquisition
- The Copernican Problematic and Astrological Theorizing after Bruno's Trial
- Kepler's Continuing Search for Astrology's Foundations
- 14 The Naturalist Turn and Celestial Order: Constructing the Nova of 1604
- The Predicted Conjunction of the Three Superior Planets and the Unforeseen Nova of 1604
- Galileo and the Italian Nova Controversies
- Honor and Credibility in the Capra Controversy
- Galileo and Kepler's Nova
- Celestial Natural Philosophy in a New Key: Kepler's De Stella Nova and the Modernizers
- The Possibility of a Reformed Astrological Theoric: Kepler for and against Pico (Again)
- The Copernican Question in the Stella Nova: Kepler for Gilbert, against Tycho
- Making Room: Kepler between Wacker von Wackenfels and Tycho Brahe
- Generating the Nova: Divine Action and Material Necessity
- Summary and Conclusion
- 15 How Kepler's New Star Traveled to England
- Kepler's Star over Germany and Italy
- Kepler's English Campaign
- Part VI The Modernizers, Recurrent Novelties, and Celestial Order
- 16 The Struggle for Order
- The Emergent Problematic of the Via Moderna
- Many Roads for the Modernizers: The Social Disunity of Copernican Natural Philosophy
- Along
- the Via Moderna
- 17 Modernizing Theoretical Knowledge: Patronage, Reputation, Learned Sociability, Gentlemanly Veracity
- Theoretical Knowledge and Scholarly Reputation
- Patron-Centered Heavenly Knowledge
- Patronage at the Periphery: Galileo and the Aristocratic Sphere of Learned Sociability
- Florentine Court Sociabilities
- Galileo's Decision to Leave Padua for Florence
- Stabilizing the Telescopic Novelties
- Conclusion: Gentlemanly Truth Tellers?
- 18 How Galileo's Recurrent Novelties Traveled
- The Sidereus Nuncius, the Nova Controversies, and Galileo's "Copernican Silence"
- Through a Macro Lens: The Reception of the Sidereus Nuncius and the Telescope, Mid-March to Early May 1610
- Kepler's Philosophical Conversation with Galileo and His Book
- Galileo's Negotiations with the Tuscan Court, May 1610
- Virtual Witnessing, Print, and the Great Resistance
- Magini's Strategic Retreat and the 7/11 Problem
- Galileo and Kepler: The Denouement
- Scottish Scientific Diplomacy: John Wedderburn's Confutatio
- Galileo's Novelties and the Jesuits
- Conclusion. The Great Controversy
- Astrological Prognostication and Astronomical Revolution
- Copernicans and Master-Disciple Relations
- Seventeenth-Century Thoughts about Belief Change
- The End of the Long Sixteenth Century
- The Era of Consolidation: World Systems and Comparative Probability
- From Philosophizing Astrologers to New-Style Natural Philosophers
- Weighing Probables: The Via Moderna versus the Via Media at Midcentury
- The Copernican Question after Midcentury
- Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, and the Crucial Experiment
- The Copernican Question: Closure and Proof.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520254817
- 0520254813
- OCLC:
- 452281171
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