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Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780674171039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of the Copernican Revolution, focusing on the significance of the plurality of the revolution which encompassed not only mathematical astronomy, but also conceptual changes in cosmology, physics, philosophy, and religion.
Author: Michael J. Crowe
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-04-09
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0486315592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevised edition re-creates the change from an earth- to a sun-centered conception of the solar system by focusing on an examination of the evidence available in 1615.
Author: Owen Gingerich
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2009-05-26
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0802718124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter three decades of investigation, and after traveling hundreds of thousands of miles across the globe-from Melbourne to Moscow, Boston to Beijing-Gingerich has written an utterly original book built on his experience and the remarkable insights gleaned from examining some 600 copies of De revolutionibus. He found the books owned and annotated by Galileo, Kepler and many other lesser-known astronomers whom he brings back to life, which illuminate the long, reluctant process of accepting the Sun-centered cosmos and highlight the historic tensions between science and the Catholic Church. He traced the ownership of individual copies through the hands of saints, heretics, scalawags, and bibliomaniacs. He was called as the expert witness in the theft of one copy, witnessed the dramatic auction of another, and proves conclusively that De revolutionibus was as inspirational as it was revolutionary. Part biography of a book, part scientific exploration, part bibliographic detective story, The Book Nobody Read recolors the history of cosmology and offers new appreciation of the enduring power of an extraordinary book and its ideas.
Author: Robert Westman
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2020-04-21
Total Pages: 702
ISBN-13: 0520355695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the center of a finite universe. But why did Copernicus make this bold proposal? And why did it matter? The Copernican Question reframes this pivotal moment in the history of science, centering the story on a conflict over the credibility of astrology that erupted in Italy just as Copernicus arrived in 1496. Copernicus engendered enormous resistance when he sought to protect astrology by reconstituting its astronomical foundations. Robert S. Westman shows that efforts to answer the astrological skeptics became a crucial unifying theme of the early modern scientific movement. His interpretation of this long sixteenth century, from the 1490s to the 1610s, offers a new framework for understanding the great transformations in natural philosophy in the century that followed.
Author: Hans Blumenberg
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 838
ISBN-13: 9780262022675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity.
Author: Copernicus
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2024-03-12
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 1804175714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKControversial at the time, Copernicus's discoveries led to the scientific revolution, and a greater understanding of our place in the universe. An accessible, abridged edition with a new introduction. Renaissance Natural philosopher Nicolaus Copernicus's pioneering discovery of the heliocentric nature of the solar system is one of the few identifiable moments in history that define the understanding of the nature of all things. His great work was the consequence of long observation and resulted in the first stage of the Scientific Revolution by correctly positing that the earth and other planets of the solar system revolved around the sun. Not only did this promote further study to understand the place of humanity in the world and the universe, it questioned the authority of the organised Christian Church in the West to be the keeper of fundamental truths. Ultimately this would lead to the Enlightenment, and the separation of religion, government and science. The FLAME TREE Foundations series features core publications which together have shaped the cultural landscape of the modern world, with cutting-edge research distilled into pocket guides designed to be both accessible and informative.
Author: Johannes Kepler
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2012-07-03
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1615921974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe brilliant German mathematician Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), one of the founders of modern astronomy, revolutionized the Copernican heliocentric theory of the universe with his three laws of motion: that the planets move not in circular but elliptical orbits, that their speed is greatest when nearest the sun, and that the sun and planets form an integrated system. This volume contains two of his most important works: The Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (books 4 and 5 of which are translated here) is a textbook of Copernican science, remarkable for the prominence given to physical astronomy and for the extension to the Jovian system of the laws recently discovered to regulate the motions of the Planets. Harmonies of the World (book 5 of which is translated here) expounds an elaborate system of celestial harmonies depending on the varying velocities of the planets.
Author: Nicolaus Copernicus
Publisher:
Published: 2011-10
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781258157845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nicolaus Copernicus
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2018-10-17
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0486827755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes "Commentariolus," Copernicus' hypotheses for heavenly motions; "Narratio Prima," popular introduction to Copernican theory; and "The Letter Against Werner," refutation of the views of a contemporary. Extensive editorial apparatus.
Author: Kenneth James Howell
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an analysis of how 16th- and 17th-century astronomers and theologians in Northern Protestant Europe used science and religion to challenge and support one another. It argues that these schemes can solve the enduring problem of how theological interpretation and investigation interact.
