This collection of essays explores the multi-cultural, multi-religious, and multi-lingual context of learning on the eve of the Copernican revolution. Although Copernicus's work and its influence have been subject to a number of excellent studies, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to Copernicus's sources and the diverse cultures and contexts of learning in which he lived and by which he could have been inspired. Previous authors who have attended to this background have tended to put forth singular and rather narrow explanations of Copernicus's turn to heliocentrism. In contrast, this volume does not seek to provide the explanation, or even an explanation, but rather provides the reader with aspects of the complex and surprisingly rich intellectual and scientific world before Copernicus.--$cProvided by publisher.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-320) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2017.
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 520.9409/024
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780773550094 9780773550117
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- QB29
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- B44 2017eb
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- 1 electronic text (xx, 344 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Copyright 9
- Contents 12
- Note on Conventions 14
- Tables and Figures 16
- Acknowledgments 20
- Introduction 24
- PART ONE: THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPEAN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS 36
- 1: What Did It Mean to Live in the Long Fifteenth Century? 38
- 2: European Cross-Cultural Contexts before Copernicus 50
- PART TWO: THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL AND SCIENTIFIC CONTEXTS 64
- 3: The Status of Astronomy as a Science in Fifteenth-Century Cracow: Ibn al-Haytham, Peurbach, and Copernicus 66
- 4: Regiomontanus and Astronomical Controversy in the Background of Copernicus 100
- 5: Framing the Appearances in the Fifteenth Century: Alberti, Cusa, Regiomontanus, and Copernicus 131
- PART THREE: THE MULTICULTURAL ASTRONOMICAL BACKGROUND TO THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION 162
- 6: Fifteenth-Century Astronomy in the Islamic World 164
- 7: From Tūn to Toruń: The Twists and Turns of the Tūsī-Couple 182
- 8: Jews as Scientific Intermediaries in the European Renaissance 219
- Notes 236
- Bibliography 304
- Contributors 342
- Index 344
