The Copernican Question
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The Copernican Question

  1. 704 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Copernican Question

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780520355699
eBook ISBN
9780520948167
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Preface and Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. I: Copernicus’s Space of Possibilities
  9. II: Confessional and Interconfessional Spaces of Prophecy and Prognostication
  10. III: Accommodating Unanticipated, Singular Novelties
  11. IV: Securing the Divine Plan
  12. V: Conflicted Modernizers at the Turn of the Century
  13. VI: The Modernizers, Recurrent Novelties, and Celestial Order
  14. Conclusion: The Great Controversy
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index