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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].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; Volume 36.
- Intersections, 1568-1181 ; Volume 36
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astronomers--Poland--Biography.
- Astronomers.
- Astronomy--History.
- Astronomy.
- Astronomy--Miscellanea.
- Planetary science.
- Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
- Copernicus, Nicolaus.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- All those interested in Copernicus, transformation of images, application of metaphors, history of science,
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-28112-6
- OCLC:
- 894170767
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004281127 DOI
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