The making of Copernicus : early modern transformations of the scientist and his science /
The making of Copernicus : early modern transformations of the scientist and his science /
edited by Wolfgang Neuber, Thomas Rahn, and Claus Zittel.
- 1 online resource.
- Intersections, v. 36 1568-1181 ; .
- Intersections 36. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2014-II, ISBN: 9789004271456. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: The Making of Copernicus / 1 The Decline of Medieval Disputation Culture and the ‘Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory’ / 2 The Silence of the Wolves, Or, Why It Took the Holy Inquisition Seventy-Three Years to Ban Copernicanism / 3 A Natural History of the Heavens: Francis Bacon’s Anti-Copernicanism / 4 Hume’s Copernican Turn / 5 Arguing for One’s World. Copernicus’s Theories and Their Reception in Jean Bodin’s Theatrum / 6 Writing after Copernicus: Epistemology and Poetics in Giordano Bruno’s Ash Wednesday Supper / 7 Die Erde als Mond. Kopernikanische Wenden in Raumreiseerzählungen des 17. Jahrhunderts (Kepler, Godwin, Cyrano de Bergerac) / 8 Cosmology after Copernicus: Decentralisation of the Sun and the Plurality of Worlds in French Engravings / 9 Timid Mathematicians vs. Daring Explorers of the Infinite Cosmos: Giordano Bruno, Literary Self-Fashioning and De revolutionibus orbium coelestium / 10 “Copernicus Found a Treasure the True Value of Which He Did Not Know at All”. The Life of Copernicus by Pierre Gassendi / 11 Hero of the Bourgeois World. Copernicus and His Afterlife in German Literature / 12 Max Brod: Tycho Brahes Weg zu Gott / Index Nominum. Wolfgang Neuber , Thomas Rahn and Claus Zittel -- Stefan Kirschner and Andreas Kühne -- Gereon Wolters -- Dana Jalobeanu -- Tamás Demeter -- Jonathan Schüz -- Steffen Schneider -- Thomas Rahn -- Lucía Ayala -- Sergius Kodera -- Claus Zittel -- Wolfgang Neuber -- Jörg Jungmayr --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
All those interested in Copernicus, transformation of images, application of metaphors, history of science,
Mostly in English; chapter 7 in German.
9789004281127
10.1163/9789004281127 DOI
2014027278
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
Astronomers--Poland--Biography.
Astronomy--History.
Astronomy--Miscellanea.
Planetology.
QB36.C8 / M25 2014
520.92 B
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: The Making of Copernicus / 1 The Decline of Medieval Disputation Culture and the ‘Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory’ / 2 The Silence of the Wolves, Or, Why It Took the Holy Inquisition Seventy-Three Years to Ban Copernicanism / 3 A Natural History of the Heavens: Francis Bacon’s Anti-Copernicanism / 4 Hume’s Copernican Turn / 5 Arguing for One’s World. Copernicus’s Theories and Their Reception in Jean Bodin’s Theatrum / 6 Writing after Copernicus: Epistemology and Poetics in Giordano Bruno’s Ash Wednesday Supper / 7 Die Erde als Mond. Kopernikanische Wenden in Raumreiseerzählungen des 17. Jahrhunderts (Kepler, Godwin, Cyrano de Bergerac) / 8 Cosmology after Copernicus: Decentralisation of the Sun and the Plurality of Worlds in French Engravings / 9 Timid Mathematicians vs. Daring Explorers of the Infinite Cosmos: Giordano Bruno, Literary Self-Fashioning and De revolutionibus orbium coelestium / 10 “Copernicus Found a Treasure the True Value of Which He Did Not Know at All”. The Life of Copernicus by Pierre Gassendi / 11 Hero of the Bourgeois World. Copernicus and His Afterlife in German Literature / 12 Max Brod: Tycho Brahes Weg zu Gott / Index Nominum. Wolfgang Neuber , Thomas Rahn and Claus Zittel -- Stefan Kirschner and Andreas Kühne -- Gereon Wolters -- Dana Jalobeanu -- Tamás Demeter -- Jonathan Schüz -- Steffen Schneider -- Thomas Rahn -- Lucía Ayala -- Sergius Kodera -- Claus Zittel -- Wolfgang Neuber -- Jörg Jungmayr --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
All those interested in Copernicus, transformation of images, application of metaphors, history of science,
Mostly in English; chapter 7 in German.
9789004281127
10.1163/9789004281127 DOI
2014027278
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
Astronomers--Poland--Biography.
Astronomy--History.
Astronomy--Miscellanea.
Planetology.
QB36.C8 / M25 2014
520.92 B