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The Copernican question: prognostication, skepticism, and celestial order

Robert S. Westman
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xi)
  • Preface and Acknowledgments (page xv)
  • INTRODUCTION (page 1)
  • I Copernicus's Space of Possibilities
    • 1. THE LITERATURE OF THE HEAVENS AND THE SCIENCE OF THE STARS (page 25)
    • 2. CONSTRUCTING THE FUTURE (page 62)
    • 3. COPERNICUS AND THE CRISIS OF THE BOLOGNA PROGNOSTICATORS, 1496—1500 (page 76)
  • II Confessional and Interconfessional Spaces of Prophecy and Prognostication
    • 4. BETWEEN WITTENBERG AND ROME: The New System, Astrology, and the End of the World (page 109)
    • 5. THE WITTENBERG INTERPRETATION OF COPERNICUS'S THEORY (page 141)
    • 6. VARIETIES OF ASTROLOGICAL CREDIBILITY (page 171)
    • 7. FOREKNOWLEDGE, SKEPTICISM, AND CELESTIAL ORDER IN ROME (page 194)
  • III Accomodating Unanticipated, Singular Novelties
    • 8. PLANETARY ORDER, ASTRONOMICAL REFORM, AND THE EXTRAORDINARY COURSE OF NATURE (page 223)
    • 9. THE SECOND-GENERATION COPERNICANS: Maestlin and Digges (page 259)
    • 10. A PROLIFERATION OF READINGS (page 281)
  • IV Securing the Divine Plan
    • 11. THE EMERGENCE OF KEPLER'S COPERNICAN REPRESENTATION (page 309)
    • 12. KEPLER'S EARLY AUDIENCES, 1596—1600 (page 336)
  • V Conflicted Modernizers at the Turn of the Century
    • 13. THE THIRD-GENERATION COPERNICANS: Galileo and Kepler (page 353)
    • 14. THE NATURALIST TURN AND CELESTIAL ORDER: Constructing the Nova of 1604 (page 382)
    • 15. HOW KEPLER'S NEW STAR TRAVELED TO ENGLAND (page 403)
  • VI The Modernizers, Recurrent Novelties, and Celestial Order
    • 16. THE STRUGGLE FOR ORDER (page 419)
    • 17. MODERNIZING THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE: Patronage, Reputation, Learned Sociability, Gentlemanly Veracity (page 434)
    • 18. HOW GALILEO'S RECURRENT NOVELTIES TRAVELED (page 455)
  • CONCLUSION. THE GREAT CONTROVERSY (page 485)
  • Notes (page 515)
  • Bibliography (page 605)
  • Index (page 649)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SCJ 43.3 (2012): 905-907 http://www.jstor.org/stable/24245646
RQ 65.2 (2012): 559-561 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/667300
Science 334.6056 (2011): 598-600 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41351620
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Published: c2011
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520254817 (hardcover)
  • 9780520355699 (paper)
  • 9780520948167 (ebook)
Series
  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Subject
  • Science & Technology
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