Between Copernicus and Galileo

Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology

Autor: James M. Lattis

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: University of Chicago Press

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Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher...

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Autor

James M. Lattis

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

1994

strony

314

EAN

9780226469270

Enbook ID

04546791

Wydawca

University of Chicago Press

Waga

622

Wymiary

200 x 250 x 25

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Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the standards by which Galileo's famous claims appeared so radical, and whose teachings guided the intellectual and scientific agenda of the Church in the central years of the Scientific Revolution. Though relatively unknown today, Clavius was enormously influential throughout Europe in the late 16th and early 17th centuries through his astronomy books - the standard texts used in many colleges and universities, and the tools with which Descartes, Gassendi and Mersenne, among many others, learned their astronomy. James Lattis uses Clavius's own publications, as well as archival materials, to trace the central role Clavius played in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian natural philosophy into an orthodox cosmology. Although Clavius strongly resisted the new cosmologies of Copernicus and Tycho, Galileo's invention of the telescope ultimately eroded the Ptolemaic world view. By tracing Clavius's views from medieval cosmology to the 17th century, Lattis illuminates the conceptual shift from Ptolemaic to Copernican astronomy and the social, intellectual and theological impact of the Scientific Revolution.

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