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Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance

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Pietro Daniel Omodeo – 2014

In Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance, Pietro Daniel Omodeo presents a general overview of the reception of Copernicus’s astronomical proposal from the years immediately preceding the publication of De revolutionibus (1543) to the Roman prohibition of heliocentric hypotheses in 1616. Relying on a detailed investigation of early modern sources, the author systematically examines a series of issues ranging from computation to epistemology, natural philosophy, theology and ethics. In addition to offering a pluralistic and interdisciplinary perspective on post-Copernican astronomy, the study goes beyond purely cosmological and geometrical issues and engages in a wide-ranging discussion of how Copernicus’s legacy interacted with European culture and how his image and theories evolved as a result.

Titel
Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance
Verfasser
Pietro Daniel Omodeo
Mitwirkende
Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, is member of the Collaborative Research Centre "Episteme in Motion" (SFB 980) at Freie Universität Berlin
Verlag
BRILL
Datum
2014
Sprache
eng
Größe oder Länge
433 pp.