| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) |
| Series |
Intersections ; volume 36 |
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Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 36.
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| Contents |
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: The Making of Copernicus / Wolfgang Neuber , Thomas Rahn and Claus Zittel -- 1 The Decline of Medieval Disputation Culture and the 'Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory' / Stefan Kirschner and Andreas Kühne -- 2 The Silence of the Wolves, Or, Why It Took the Holy Inquisition Seventy-Three Years to Ban Copernicanism / Gereon Wolters -- 3 A Natural History of the Heavens: Francis Bacon's Anti-Copernicanism / Dana Jalobeanu -- 4 Hume's Copernican Turn / Tamás Demeter -- 5 Arguing for One's World. Copernicus's Theories and Their Reception in Jean Bodin's Theatrum / Jonathan Schüz -- 6 Writing after Copernicus: Epistemology and Poetics in Giordano Bruno's Ash Wednesday Supper / Steffen Schneider -- 7 Die Erde als Mond. Kopernikanische Wenden in Raumreiseerzählungen des 17. Jahrhunderts (Kepler, Godwin, Cyrano de Bergerac) / Thomas Rahn -- 8 Cosmology after Copernicus: Decentralisation of the Sun and the Plurality of Worlds in French Engravings / Lucía Ayala -- 9 Timid Mathematicians vs. Daring Explorers of the Infinite Cosmos: Giordano Bruno, Literary Self-Fashioning and De revolutionibus orbium coelestium / Sergius Kodera -- 10 "Copernicus Found a Treasure the True Value of Which He Did Not Know at All". The Life of Copernicus by Pierre Gassendi / Claus Zittel -- 11 Hero of the Bourgeois World. Copernicus and His Afterlife in German Literature / Wolfgang Neuber -- 12 Max Brod: Tycho Brahes Weg zu Gott / Jörg Jungmayr -- Index Nominum |
| Summary |
The volume articles examine exemplarily how some of the Copernicus myths came about and if they could hold their ground. They investigate methodological, institutional, textual and visual transformations of the Copernican doctrine and the topical, rhetorical and literary transformations of the historical person of Copernicus respectively |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Mostly in English; chapter 7 in German |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
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| SUBJECT |
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 fast |
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Astronomers -- Poland -- Biography
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Astronomy -- History
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Astronomy -- Miscellanea
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Planetary science.
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SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
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Astronomers
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Astronomy
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Planetary science
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Poland
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Biographies
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History
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Trivia and miscellanea
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Neuber, Wolfgang, editor
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Rahn, Thomas, editor
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Zittel, Claus, editor
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| ISBN |
9789004281127 |
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9004281126 |
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