UID:
almafu_9959226889902883
Format:
1 online resource (316 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-05836-7
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9786613058362
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0-226-46926-3
Content:
Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the standards by which Galileo's famous claims appeared so radical, and whose teachings guided the intellectual and scientific agenda of the Church in the central years of the Scientific Revolution. Though relatively unknown today, Clavius was enormously influential throughout Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through his astronomy books-the standard texts used in many colleges and universities, and the tools with which Descartes, Gassendi, and Mersenne, among many others, learned their astronomy. James Lattis uses Clavius's own publications as well as archival materials to trace the central role Clavius played in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian natural philosophy into an orthodox cosmology. Although Clavius strongly resisted the new cosmologies of Copernicus and Tycho, Galileo's invention of the telescope ultimately eroded the Ptolemaic world view. By tracing Clavius's views from medieval cosmology the seventeenth century, Lattis illuminates the conceptual shift from Ptolemaic to Copernican astronomy and the social, intellectual, and theological impact of the Scientific Revolution.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Preface --
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Note on Editions, Quotations, Translations, and Names --
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One. Clavius's Astronomical Work and Life --
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Two. Jesuit Mathematics and Ptolemaic Astronomy --
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Three. The Defense of Ptolemaic Cosmology --
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Four. The Rival Cosmologies --
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Five. Cosmological Debate and the Rebuttal of Copernicus --
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Six. Strains on Ptolemaic Cosmology, Inside and Out --
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Seven. Galileo, Tycho, and the Fate of the Celestial Spheres --
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Conclusion --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-46929-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-46927-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
Physics
DOI:
10.7208/9780226469263
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