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405pages |
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Contributions / University of California at Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; 7 |
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Contributions of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; 7 |
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Contributions of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; 7
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Contributions (University of California at Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) ; 7
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Contributions of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; 7
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| Contents |
Introduction The Copernican achievement / Robert S. Westman -- Rheticus, Ravetz, and the "necessity" of Copernicus' innovation / Curtis A. Wilson -- Commentary / Salomon Bochner -- On Copernicus' theory of precession / Noel Swerdlow -- Commentary: Remarks on Copernicus' observations / Owen Gingerich -- Erasmus Reinhold's determination of the distance of the Sun from the Earth / Janice Henderson -- Commentary: The role of error in ancient methods for determining the solar distance / Ernest S. Abers, Charles F. Kennel -- The arts faculty at the University of Cracow at the end of the fifteenth century / Paul W. Knoll -- Commentary: In defense of context / Nicholas H. Steneck -- The dialectical preparation for scientific revolutions / Amos Funkenstein -- Commentary: Dialectical aspects of the Copernican revolution: conceptual elucidations and historiographical problems / Maurice A. Finocchiaro -- Andreas Osiander's contribution to the Copernican achievement / Bruce Wrightsman -- The solid planetary spheres in post-Copernican natural philosophy / William H. Donahue -- Commentary: Duhem and Donahue / John L. Heilbron -- Three responses to the Copernican theory: Johannes Praetorius, Tycho Brahe, and Michael Maestlin / Robert S. Westman -- Commentary: Fictionalism and realism in sixteenth-century astronomy / Peter K. Machamer -- Why did Copernicus' research program supersede Ptolemy's? / Imre Lakatos and Elie Zahar -- Commentary / Stephen E. Toulmin |
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Astronomy Theories of Copernicus, Nicolaus 1473-1543 Conference proceedings |
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Europe Astronomy 1400-1650 Conference proceedings |
| Notes |
Papers from a Symposium Held at the University of California at Los Angeles, Nov.1-2, 1973 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
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Copernicus, Nicolaus.
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Astronomy -- History.
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Renaissance.
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| Author |
Westman, Robert S.
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University of California. Los Angeles Campus. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Contribution ; 7
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| LC no. |
74022974 |
| ISBN |
0520028775 |
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