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1 online resource (316 pages) |
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List of Illustrations; Preface; Note on Editions; One: Clavius's Astronomical Work and Life; Two: Jesuit Mathematics and Ptolemaic Astonomy; Three: The Defense of ptolemaic Sosmology; Four: The Rival Comologies; Five: Cosmological Debate and the Rebuttal of Copernicus; Six: Strains on Ptolemaic Cosmology; Seven: Galileo, Tycho, and the Fate of the Celestial Spheres; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through his astronomy books--the standard texts used in many colleges and universities, and the tools with which Descartes, Gassendi, and Me |
| Analysis |
christoph clavius, jesuit, science, astronomy, heresy, catholic church, scientific revolution, mersenne, descartes, gassendi, cosmology, natural philosophy, aristotle, ptolemy, tycho, copernicus, telescope, planets, sun, orbit, universe, heliocentric, nonfiction, history, theology, medieval, celestial spheres, mathematics, discovery, instruments, observation, religion |
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Print version record |
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Clavius, Christoph, 1538-1612.
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Ptolemy, active 2nd century
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Clavius, Christoph, 1538-1612 fast |
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Ptolemy, active 2nd century fast |
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Cosmology, Medieval.
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Astronomy, Medieval.
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Astronomy, Medieval
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Cosmology, Medieval
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226469263 |
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0226469263 |
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