The Copernican question : prognostication, skepticism, and celestial order / Robert S. Westman

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Westman, Robert S, 1941- [aut]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Buch (Online)Sprache: Englisch Verlag: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011Auflage: Online-AusgBeschreibung: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xviii, 681 p.)) : illISBN:

9781283277457
128327745X
9780520948167
9780520254817

Schlagwörter: Andere physische Formen: 9780520948167 | 9780520254817 | 0520233239 | Erscheint auch als: The Copernican question. Druck-Ausgabe Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011. XVIII, 681 SeitenDDC-Klassifikation:

520.94/09031 22
520.9409031

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Zusammenfassung: 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.Zusammenfassung: Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Historical Problematic -- Summary and Plan of This Work -- Categories of Description and Explanation -- I: Copernicus's Space of Possibilities -- 1. The Literature of the Heavens and the Science of the stars -- Printing, Planetary Theory, and the Genres of Forecast -- Copernicus's Exceptionalism -- Practices of Classifying Heavenly Knowledge and Knowledge Makers -- The Science of the Stars -- The Career of the Theorica/Practica Distinction -- Theoretical Astrology: From the Arabic to the Reformed, Humanist Tetrabiblos -- The Order of the Planets and Copernicus's Early Formation -- Copernicus's Problematic: The Unresolved Issues -- 2. Constructing the Future -- The Annual Prognostication -- The Popular Verse Prophecies -- Sites of Prognostication -- 3. Copernicus and the Crisis of the Bologna Prognosticators, 1496-1500 -- The Bologna Period, 1496-1500: An Undisturbed View -- From the Krakow Collegium Maius to the Bologna Studium Generale -- Bologna and the "Horrible Wars of Italy" -- The Astrologers' War -- Pico against the Astrologers -- Domenico Maria Novara and Copernicus in the Bologna Culture of Prognostication -- Prognosticators, Humanists, and the Sedici -- Copernicus, Assistant and Witness 9 -- The Averroists and the Order of Mercury and Venus -- Copernicus's Commentariolus or, Perhaps, the Theoric of Seven Postulates -- Copernicus, Pico, and De Revolutionibus -- II: Confessional and Interconfessional Spaces of Prophecy and Prognostication -- 4. Between Wittenberg And Rome the New System, Astrology, and the end of the world -- Melanchthon, Pico, and Naturalistic Divination -- Rheticus's Narratio Prima in the Wittenberg-Nuremberg Cultural Orbit -- World-Historical Prophecy and Celestial Revolutions.Other relationships: Weitere Beziehungen:

Rezensiert in: Mayer, Thomas F. [Rezension von: Westman, Robert S., The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order]. 2012

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