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 (xv, 331 pages)
- Intersections ; volume 36 .
- Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 36. .
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters 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 --
The volume articles examine exemplarily how some of the Copernicus myths came about and if they could hold their ground. They investigate methodological, institutional, textual and visual transformations of the Copernican doctrine and the topical, rhetorical and literary transformations of the historical person of Copernicus respectively.
Mostly in English; chapter 7 in German.
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Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
Astronomers--Poland--Biography.
Astronomy--History.
Astronomy--Miscellanea.
Planetary science.
Astronomes--Pologne--Biographies.
Astronomie--Histoire.
Astronomie--Miscellanées.
Planétologie.
SCIENCE--Astronomy.
Astronomers.
Astronomy.
Planetary science.
Poland.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.
Trivia and miscellanea.
QB36.C8 M25 2014
520.92
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters 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 --
The volume articles examine exemplarily how some of the Copernicus myths came about and if they could hold their ground. They investigate methodological, institutional, textual and visual transformations of the Copernican doctrine and the topical, rhetorical and literary transformations of the historical person of Copernicus respectively.
Mostly in English; chapter 7 in German.
9789004281127 (electronic bk.) 9004281126 (electronic bk.) (hardcover) (hardcover)
1823627 Proquest Ebook Central
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
Astronomers--Poland--Biography.
Astronomy--History.
Astronomy--Miscellanea.
Planetary science.
Astronomes--Pologne--Biographies.
Astronomie--Histoire.
Astronomie--Miscellanées.
Planétologie.
SCIENCE--Astronomy.
Astronomers.
Astronomy.
Planetary science.
Poland.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.
Trivia and miscellanea.
QB36.C8 M25 2014
520.92