2013 - Leo S. Olschki
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Celestial novelties on the eve of the scientific revolution : 1540-1630
xvi, 282 p. : ill.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Texts in English, French, and Italian.
- Collected essays.
- On cover: Museo Galileo, Istituto e museo di storia della 9 scienza.
- Contains bibliographical references, notes and name index.
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ISBN: 9788822262547
SERIES
DISCIPLINES
SUBJECTS HEADINGS
- Comets -- History
- Astronomy -- History
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In this volume
- Introduction
- Past portents predict : cometary historiae and catalogues in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- Prophecy and politics in Spain : celestial novelties and the science of the stars, 1572-1630
- The comet of 1577 in Italy : astrological prognostications and cometary theory at the end of the sixteenth century
- Francesco Giuntini et les nouveautés célestes
- Astrologia cristiana e nuova scienza : pronostici astrologici sulle comete (1577-1618)
- Jean Fernel on celestial influences and the reform of medical theory
- How to Present a Copernican Come t: the Form andTactics of Christoph Rothmann's Dialexis on the Comet of 1585
- Tycho Brahe's anti-Copernican campaign : his criticism of Maestlin and Thomas Digges in the Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata
- A perfect similitude : science and politics in Kepler's dedicatory letters to De stella nova and the Astronomia nova
- Comètes et taches solaires en Allemagne (1610-1630) : l'aile hétérodoxe (Faulhaber, Mayr, Mögling) et le point de départ de la fable du monde cartésienne
- Galileo, reliable observer : astronomical accuracy and the optical limits of the telescope
- Index of names
