The Copernican question : prognostication, skepticism, and celestial order /
In 1543, Copernicus defended his hypothesis that the Earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the centre of a finite universe. This volume reframes this pivotal moment in the history of science, centring the story on a conflict over the credibility of astrology that erupted in Italy just as...
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2011.
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| Edice: | Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities imprint.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pn8ng |
Obsah:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Copernicus's Space of Possibilities; II: Confessional and Interconfessional Spaces of Prophecy and Prognostication; III: Accommodating Unanticipated, Singular Novelties; IV: Securing the Divine Plan; V: Conflicted Modernizers at the Turn of the Century; VI: The Modernizers, Recurrent Novelties, and Celestial Order; Conclusion: The Great Controversy; Notes; Bibliography; Index.