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1 online resource |
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Medieval and Early Modern Science |
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History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science.
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Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction (Granada); 1. Christoph Rothmann and Astronomy in Wittenberg; 2. Astronomy in Kassel: Landgrave Wilhelm IV and His Programme of Stellar Astronomy; 3. The Comet of 1585 and the Dialexis cometae; 4. Phases of Composition of the Dialexis cometae; 5. Rothmann's Cosmological Innovations in the Dialexis cometae; 6. The Status of Astronomical Hypotheses; 7. The Title of the Work; Chapter 2. Dialexis Cometae qui Anno Christi M.D. LXXXV mensibus Octobri et Novembri apparuit / A Discourse on the Comet Which Appeared in the Months of October and November of 1585 |
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Chapter 1. On the Observations of This CometChapter 2. Concerning the Motion of This Comet in Longitude and Latitude; Chapter 3. Whether This Comet Had Parallax; Chapter 4. In Which Sphere This Comet Was; Chapter 5. Since It Is Commonly Believed That the Spheres of the Planets Are Solid Bodies, How Could the Comet Have Progressed in Them? And What Is to Be Thought on This Question?; Chapter 6. A Refutation of Some Opinions Concerning Comets; Namely, That They Are Neither Species Appearing without Matter, Nor Perpetual Bodies Together with the Rest of the Stars, Nor Vapours Ignited in the Air |
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Chapter 7. The Opinion of the Author about the Matter and Essence of CometsChapter 8. The Uses of the Examination of Comets; Chapter 9. That That Matter Flowing around the Planets Differs Not at All from Pure Sublunar Air, and Where, Moreover, the Contrary Arguments Are Refuted; Description of the Comet Which Shone in the Year 1596 in the Month of July, but Set Out in a Fuller Form from the Papers of the Same Rothmann; Chapter 3. Appendices: Related Texts and Translations; 1. Letters from Christoph Rothmann to Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel, 1585-1586 |
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2. Letter of Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel to Heinrich Rantzau, 20 October 15853. Letter of Wilhelm IV to Christoph Rothmann of 18 November 1585, Authorising the Drafting of a scriptum on the Comet.; 4. Elias Olsen Morsing's Account of the Comet of 1585; Chapter 4. How to Present a Copernican Comet: The Form and Tactics of Christoph Rothmann's Dialexis on the Comet of 1585 (Jardine); 1. Introduction; 2. Disciplines: Mathematics vs. Philosophy; 3. Disciplines: Theology; 4. Genres: dialexis, 'critical doxography', historia, observationes; 5. Persuasive Tactics; 6. Comets as Boundary Objects |
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Chapter 5. The History and Historiography of Early Modern Comets (Mosley)1. 1577 and All That: What Every Historian of Astronomy Knows; 2. Historia: Comets, Astronomy, and Historical Astrology; 3. 1577 and All That Revisited; Chapter 6. A Brief Note on Cometary Parallax (Mosley); 1. Tycho, Regiomontanus, and the Problems of Parallax; 2. Rothmann and the Parallax of the Comet of 1585; 3. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Persons; Index of Places; Index of Subjects |
| Summary |
Christoph Rothmann's Discourse on the Comet of 1585 offers the first edition of the Latin treatise after it was published in 1619. It is accompanied by an English translation and a full introduction and commentary |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Comets -- 1585 -- Early works to 1800
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Astronomy, Medieval -- Early works to 1800
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Cosmology, Medieval -- Early works to 1800
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SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
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Astronomy, Medieval.
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Comets.
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Cosmology, Medieval.
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| Genre/Form |
Early works.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1306942284 |
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9781306942287 |
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9789004260351 |
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9004260358 |
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