Introduction

P. 7-16

• Chapters from the same volume (available individually)

  • 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
• Information

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