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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595229271
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Copernican Passage written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674171039
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Copernican Revolution written by Thomas S. Kuhn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the Copernican Revolution, focusing on the significance of the plurality of the revolution which encompassed not only mathematical astronomy, but also conceptual changes in cosmology, physics, philosophy, and religion.
Author : Robert Westman
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520355695
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Copernican Question written by Robert Westman and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the center of a finite universe. But why did Copernicus make this bold proposal? And why did it matter? The Copernican Question reframes this pivotal moment in the history of science, centering the story on a conflict over the credibility of astrology that erupted in Italy just as Copernicus arrived in 1496. Copernicus engendered enormous resistance when he sought to protect astrology by reconstituting its astronomical foundations. Robert S. Westman shows that efforts to answer the astrological skeptics became a crucial unifying theme of the early modern scientific movement. His interpretation of this long sixteenth century, from the 1490s to the 1610s, offers a new framework for understanding the great transformations in natural philosophy in the century that followed.
Author : Owen Gingerich
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871697875
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (978 download)
Download or read book The Wittich Connection written by Owen Gingerich and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1988 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Introduction; (1) The Libraries of Tycho Brahe & of Paul Wittich: The Misleading Attribution of the Copernican Annotations; Master Paul Wittich; Tycho's Attempts to Acquire Wittich's Library; & The Prague Tychoniana; (2) Wittich's Copernican Annotations: Reinhold's Annotations & the Liege "De revolutionibus"; The Vatican Wittich Copy; The Prague & Wroclaw Wittich Copies; & Why Annotate Four Copes of "De revolutionibus"?; (3) Reconstructing the Universe: Tycho's Early Transformations & Wittich's Visit; A Theft in the Castle?: Thycho's "Legal Brief" on the Ursus Affair, & Ursus' Account & Kepler's Interpretation; & Constructing Tycho's Cosmology. Appendix: The Vatican Annotations; & Wittich's Obituary in "Silesia Togata." Illus.
Author : Nicolaus Copernicus
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486827755
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Three Treatises on Copernican Theory written by Nicolaus Copernicus and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "Commentariolus," Copernicus' hypotheses for heavenly motions; "Narratio Prima," popular introduction to Copernican theory; and "The Letter Against Werner," refutation of the views of a contemporary. Extensive editorial apparatus.
Author : Galileo
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 037575766X
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems written by Galileo and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2001-10-02 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, proving, for the first time, that the earth revolves around the sun. Its influence is incalculable. The Dialogue is not only one of the most important scientific treatises ever written, but a work of supreme clarity and accessibility, remaining as readable now as when it was first published. This edition uses the definitive text established by the University of California Press, in Stillman Drake’s translation, and includes a Foreword by Albert Einstein and a new Introduction by J. L. Heilbron.
Author : Owen Gingerich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802718124
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Book Nobody Read written by Owen Gingerich and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After three decades of investigation, and after traveling hundreds of thousands of miles across the globe-from Melbourne to Moscow, Boston to Beijing-Gingerich has written an utterly original book built on his experience and the remarkable insights gleaned from examining some 600 copies of De revolutionibus. He found the books owned and annotated by Galileo, Kepler and many other lesser-known astronomers whom he brings back to life, which illuminate the long, reluctant process of accepting the Sun-centered cosmos and highlight the historic tensions between science and the Catholic Church. He traced the ownership of individual copies through the hands of saints, heretics, scalawags, and bibliomaniacs. He was called as the expert witness in the theft of one copy, witnessed the dramatic auction of another, and proves conclusively that De revolutionibus was as inspirational as it was revolutionary. Part biography of a book, part scientific exploration, part bibliographic detective story, The Book Nobody Read recolors the history of cosmology and offers new appreciation of the enduring power of an extraordinary book and its ideas.
Author : Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048132010
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Defending Copernicus and Galileo written by Maurice A. Finocchiaro and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although recent works on Galileo’s trial have reached new heights of erudition, documentation, and sophistication, they often exhibit inflated complexities, neglect 400 years of historiography, or make little effort to learn from Galileo. This book strives to avoid such lacunae by judiciously comparing and contrasting the two Galileo affairs, that is, the original controversy over the earth’s motion ending with his condemnation by the Inquisition in 1633, and the subsequent controversy over the rightness of that condemnation continuing to our day. The book argues that the Copernican Revolution required that the hypothesis of the earth’s motion be not only constructively supported with new reasons and evidence, but also critically defended from numerous old and new objections. This defense in turn required not only the destructive refutation, but also the appreciative understanding of those objections in all their strength. A major Galilean accomplishment was to elaborate such a reasoned, critical, and fair-minded defense of Copernicanism. Galileo’s trial can be interpreted as a series of ecclesiastic attempts to stop him from so defending Copernicus. And an essential thread of the subsequent controversy has been the emergence of many arguments claiming that his condemnation was right, as well as defenses of Galileo from such criticisms. The book’s particular yet overarching thesis is that today the proper defense of Galileo can and should have the reasoned, critical, and fair-minded character which his own defense of Copernicus had.
Author : John Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Poetical Works of John Milton written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Poetical Works written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book Paradise Lost written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pietro Daniel Omodeo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004254501
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance written by Pietro Daniel Omodeo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance, Pietro Daniel Omodeo presents a general overview of the reception of Copernicus’s astronomical proposal from the years immediately preceding the publication of De revolutionibus (1543) to the Roman prohibition of heliocentric hypotheses in 1616. Relying on a detailed investigation of early modern sources, the author systematically examines a series of issues ranging from computation to epistemology, natural philosophy, theology and ethics. In addition to offering a pluralistic and interdisciplinary perspective on post-Copernican astronomy, the study goes beyond purely cosmological and geometrical issues and engages in a wide-ranging discussion of how Copernicus’s legacy interacted with European culture and how his image and theories evolved as a result.
Author : André Goddu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004183620
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Copernicus and the Aristotelian Tradition written by André Goddu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a half century of scholarship, of Polish studies of Copernicus and Cracow University, and of Copernicus's sources, this book offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of Copernicus's achievement, and explains his commitment to the uniform, circular motions of celestial bodies, and his views about hypotheses.
Author : Hans Blumenberg
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262022675
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (226 download)
Download or read book The Genesis of the Copernican World written by Hans Blumenberg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity.
Author : Edwards Rosen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0826441106
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Copernicus and his Successors written by Edwards Rosen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Copernirus and his Successors deal both with the influences on Copernicus, including that of Greek and Arabic thinkers, and with his own life and attitudes. They also examine how he was seen by contemporaries and finally describe his relationship to other scientists, including Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.
Author : Galileo Galilei
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520004507
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition written by Galileo Galilei and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1953 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galileo's outstanding scientific work supporting the new Copernican conception of the universe (which led to the famous trial). In the form of a conversation among characters named Salviati, Sagredo, & Simplicio.
