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Author(s): Robert S. Westman
ISBN(s): 9780520254817, 0520254813
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Year: 2011
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ISBN 10: 0520254813 

ISBN 13: 978-0520254817

Author: Robert S. Westman

In 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.

Table of contents: 

Introduction

The Historical Problematic

Summary and Plan of This Work

Categories of Description and Explanation

Part I. Copernicus’s Space of Possibilities

1. The Literature of the Heavens and the Science of the Stars

2. Constructing the Future

3. Copernicus and the Crisis of the Bologna Prognosticators, 1496–1500

Part II. Confessional and Interconfessional Spaces of Prophecy and Prognostication

4. Between Wittenberg and Rome: The New System, Astrology, and the End of the World

5. The Wittenberg Interpretation of Copernicus’s Theory

6. Varieties of Astrological Credibility

7. Foreknowledge, Skepticism, and Celestial Order in Rome

Part III. Accommodating Unanticipated, Singular Novelties

8. Planetary Order, Astronomical Reform, and the Extraordinary Course of Nature

9. The Second-Generation Copernicans: Maestlin and Digges

10. A Proliferation of Readings

Part IV. Securing the Divine Plan

11. The Emergence of Kepler’s Copernican Representation

12. Kepler’s Early Audiences, 1596–1600

Part V. Conflicted Modernizers at the Turn of the Century

13. The Third-Generation Copernicans: Galileo and Kepler

14. The Naturalist Turn and Celestial Order: Constructing the Nova of 1604

15. How Kepler’s New Star Traveled to England

Part VI. The Modernizers, Recurrent Novelties, and Celestial Order

16. The Struggle for Order

17. Modernizing Theoretical Knowledge: Patronage, Reputation, Learned Sociability, Gentlemanly Veracity

18. How Galileo’s Recurrent Novelties Traveled

Conclusion. The Great Controversy

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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