The Copernican Achievement / Robert S. Westman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Westman, Robert S., Editor.

Series:

UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies contributions ; 7

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

List of Contributors

I. INTRODUCTION: THE COPERNICAN ACHIEVEMENT

II. RHETICUS, RAVETZ, AND THE "NECESSITY" OF COPERNICUS' INNOVATION

COMMENTARY

III. ON COPERNICUS' THEORY OF PRECESSION

COMMENTARY: REMARKS ON COPERNICUS' OBSERVATIONS

IV. ERASMUS REINHOLD'S DETERMINATION OF THE DISTANCE OF THE SUN FROM THE EARTH

COMMENTARY: THE ROLE OF ERROR IN ANCIENT METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE SOLAR DISTANCE

V. THE ARTS FACULTY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CRACOW AT THE END OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

COMMENTARY: IN DEFENSE OF CONTEXT

VI. THE DIALECTICAL PREP ARATION FOR SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS

COMMENTARY: DIALECTICAL ASPECTS OF THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION: CONCEPTUAL ELUCIDATIONS AND HISTORIOGRAPHICAL PROBLEMS

VII. ANDREAS OSIANDER'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE COPERNICAN ACHIEVEMENT

VIII. THE SOLID PLANETARY SPHERES IN POST-COPERNICAN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY

COMMENTARY: DUHEM AND DONAHUE

IX. THREE RESPONSES TO THE COPERNICAN THEORY: JOHANNES PRAETORIUS, TYCHO BRAHE, AND MICHAEL MAESTLIN *

COMMENTARY: FICTIONALISM AND REALISM IN 16TH CENTURY ASTRONOMY

X. WHY DID COPERNICUS' RESEARCH PROGRAM SUPERSEDE PTOLEMY'S?

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520312890

0520312899

OCLC:

1198931795