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Inhoudsopgave
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ASTRONOMER | 104 |
DE REVOLUTIONIBUS | 145 |
BECOMING FAMOUS AT 65 | 173 |
AFTER THE DEATH OF COPERNICUS | 237 |
APPENDIX | 305 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 331 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Albrecht Alexandre Koyre Andreas Aristarchus Aristotle astrology Basel biography Bishop Lucas Bologna canon cfthe chapter Commentariolus Copernic Cracow Dantiscus Danzig Dialogo Doctor doctrine Duke earth edition Edward Rosen Ephemerides equinoxes Erasmus Reinhold famous February Frauenburg Galileo Gassendi Giese Greek heliocentrism Hermann Kesten History of Astronomy hypothesis Italy Jan Adamczewski January Jiirgen Hamel Johannes Johannes Dantiscus Jupiter Kepler later Latin Leben Leopold Prowe letter manuscript Marian Biskup mathematician mathematics mentioned Mercury Mersenne Mikolaj Kopernik moon motion move Narratio Narratio prima Nevertheless Nicolaus Copernicus Nuremberg observations orbs Otto Neugebauer Owen Gingerich Paris Peiresc Pierre Gassendi planets Polish Pope printed professor Prussia Ptolemy published record Regesta Copernicana Regiomontanus Reinhold reprinted in Copernicus revolutionibus Revolutions Rheticus Rome rotation Sculteti sphere stars Successors Swerdlow & Otto tables Teutonic Knights theory Thorun translated Tycho Brahe University Varmia Venice Venus Watzenrode Werk und Wirkung Wittenberg wrote
Populaire passages
Pagina 327 - Among all the great men who have philosophized about this remarkable effect, I am more astonished at Kepler than at any other. Despite his open and acute mind, and though he has at his fingertips the motions attributed to the earth, he has nevertheless lent his ear and his assent to to moon's dominion over the waters, to occult properties, and to such puerilities.
Pagina 281 - Some also deny that the earth is in the middest of the world, and some affirme that it is mooueable...
Pagina 288 - Cardinal Bellarmine, wrote to Foscarini on April 12, 1615: Your Fatherhood and the honorable Galileo will act prudently by contenting yourselves to speak hypothetically, ex suppositione, and not absolutely, as Copernicus has always done, I believe; in fact, to say that by supposing the earth mobile and the sun stationary we give a better account of the appearances than we could with eccentrics and epicycles, is to speak very well; there is no danger in that, and it is sufficient for the mathematician.
Pagina 267 - ... disprove) his supposition by good argumentes. and therefore you were best to condemne no thinge that you do not well vnderstand : but an other time, as I sayd, I will so declare his supposition, that you shall not only wonder to hear it, but also peraduenture be as earnest then to credite it, as you are now to condemne it.
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Life of Copernicus (1473-1543) |
| Auteurs | Pierre Gassendi, Oliver Thill |
| Uitgever | Xulon Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 1591601932, 9781591601937 |
| Lengte | 368 pagina's |
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