Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Boner, Patrick J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 27
• Subjects: History.; Philosophy.; Mathematics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; History of Science.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; History of Philosophy.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

Viewed as a flashpoint of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed a virtual explosion of ideas about the nature and structure of the world. This study explores these theories in a variety of intellectual settings, challenging our view of modern science as a straightforward succes...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Acknowledgments
• 2. Notes on Contribtutors
• 3. Introduction
• 4. The Reality of Peurbachs Orbs , (Barker)
• 5. Continuity and change in cosmological ideas in Spain between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, (Navarro Brontos)
• 6. Cornelius Gemma and the new star of 1572 ,(Tessicini)
• 7. Johannes Kepler and David Fabricius: their discussion on the nova of 1604, Grandada
• 8. Kepler’s copernican campaign and the new star of1604 , (Boner)
• 9. From cosmos to confession:
• Kepler and the connection between astronomical and religious truth, (Rothman)
• 10. Johannes phocylides holwarda and the interpretation of new stars in the dutch republic, (Vermij)
• 11. Discovering mira ceti:celestial change & cosmic continuity, (Hatch).