The Dissolution Of The Celestial Spheres 1595 1650
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The Dissolution Of The Celestial Spheres 1595 1650
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Author : William H. Donahue
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The Dissolution Of The Celestial Spheres 1595 1650 written by William H. Donahue and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Science categories.
The Copernican Achievement
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Author : Robert Westman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
The Copernican Achievement written by Robert Westman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with categories.
The Cambridge History Of Science Volume 3 Early Modern Science
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Author : David C. Lindberg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003
The Cambridge History Of Science Volume 3 Early Modern Science written by David C. Lindberg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
An account of European knowledge of the natural world, c.1500-1700.
The Copernican Question
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Author : Robert Westman
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2020-04-21
The Copernican Question written by Robert Westman and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-21 with History categories.
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.
The Unmaking Of The Medieval Christian Cosmos 1500 1760
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Author : W.G.L. Randles
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
The Unmaking Of The Medieval Christian Cosmos 1500 1760 written by W.G.L. Randles and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with History categories.
From the early Christian era and throughout the Middle Ages, theologians exerted considerable effort to achieve a synthesis bringing together Greek cosmology and the Creation story in Genesis. In the construction of the medieval Empyrean, the dwelling place of the Blessed, Aristotle’s philosophy proved of critical importance. From the Renaissance on, largely in revolt against Aristotle, humanist Bible critics, Protestant reformers and astronomers set themselves to challenge the medieval synthesis. Especially effective in the ensuing dismantlement, from the 16th to 18th centuries, was the pagan concept of an infinite universe, resuscitated from Antiquity by the Italian philosophers Bruno and Patrizi. Indirectly inspired by the latter, the doctrines of the French pre-Enlightenment thinkers Descartes and Gassendi spread throughout Latin Catholic Europe in spite of considerable resistance. By the middle of the 18th century the Roman ecclesiastical authorities were brought to acknowledge an end to the medieval cosmos, allowing Catholics to teach the theory of heliocentrism.
The Ages Of Two Faced Janus
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Author : Tabitta Van Nouhuys
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1998
The Ages Of Two Faced Janus written by Tabitta Van Nouhuys and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
This volume deals with the tracts - Latin and vernacular - published in the Netherlands on the comets of 1577 and 1618. Central to the book is the question of how these cometary appearances influenced the Aristotelian world view. This is the first lengthy examination of the decline of Aristotelian cosmology in the Netherlands. Its demonstration of the connection between cosmological and political views renders the book useful to historians of general Dutch history, as well as historians of science.
Encyclopedia Of Renaissance Philosophy
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Author : Marco Sgarbi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-10-27
Encyclopedia Of Renaissance Philosophy written by Marco Sgarbi and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with Philosophy categories.
Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.
Change And Continuity In Early Modern Cosmology
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Author : Patrick Bonner
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-02-01
Change And Continuity In Early Modern Cosmology written by Patrick Bonner and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-01 with Science categories.
Viewed as a flashpoint of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed a virtual explosion of ideas about the nature and structure of the world. This study explores these theories in a variety of intellectual settings, challenging our view of modern science as a straightforward successor to Aristotelian natural philosophy. It shows how astronomers dealt with celestial novelties by deploying old ideas in new ways and identifying more subtle notions of cosmic rationality. Beginning with the celestial spheres of Peurbach and ending with the evolutionary implications of the new star Mira Ceti, it surveys a pivotal phase in our understanding of the universe as a place of constant change that confirmed deeper patterns of cosmic order and stability.
Christoph Rothmann S Discourse On The Comet Of 1585
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Author : Miguel A. Granada
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2014-06-05
Christoph Rothmann S Discourse On The Comet Of 1585 written by Miguel A. Granada and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-05 with History categories.
Christoph Rothmann wrote a treatise on the comet of 1585 shortly after it disappeared. Though it was not printed until 1619, Rothman sent a copy of his treatise in 1586 to Tycho Brahe, decisively influencing the latter's rejection of solid celestial spheres two years later. In his treatise, Rothmann joined the elimination of the solid celestial spheres to his concept of air as the substance filling the cosmos. He based his argument on the absence of refraction and the celestial location of the comet. The treatise also contained clear statements reflecting Rothmann’s adoption of Copernicanism. This first critical edition of the treatise is accompanied by an English translation and a thorough commentary. Some appendices with archival documents illustrate the genesis of Rothmann’s treatise.
The Eye Of The Lynx
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Author : David Freedberg
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2003-08-01
The Eye Of The Lynx written by David Freedberg and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-01 with Science categories.
Some years ago, David Freedberg opened a dusty cupboard at Windsor Castle and discovered hundreds of vividly colored, masterfully precise drawings of all sorts of plants and animals from the Old and New Worlds. Coming upon thousands more drawings like them across Europe, Freedberg finally traced them all back to a little-known scientific organization from seventeenth-century Italy called the Academy of Linceans (or Lynxes). Founded by Prince Federico Cesi in 1603, the Linceans took as their task nothing less than the documentation and classification of all of nature in pictorial form. In this first book-length study of the Linceans to appear in English, Freedberg focuses especially on their unprecedented use of drawings based on microscopic observation and other new techniques of visualization. Where previous thinkers had classified objects based mainly on similarities of external appearance, the Linceans instead turned increasingly to sectioning, dissection, and observation of internal structures. They applied their new research techniques to an incredible variety of subjects, from the objects in the heavens studied by their most famous (and infamous) member Galileo Galilei—whom they supported at the most critical moments of his career—to the flora and fauna of Mexico, bees, fossils, and the reproduction of plants and fungi. But by demonstrating the inadequacy of surface structures for ordering the world, the Linceans unwittingly planted the seeds for the demise of their own favorite method—visual description-as a mode of scientific classification. Profusely illustrated and engagingly written, Eye of the Lynx uncovers a crucial episode in the development of visual representation and natural history. And perhaps as important, it offers readers a dazzling array of early modern drawings, from magnificently depicted birds and flowers to frogs in amber, monstrously misshapen citrus fruits, and more.