Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology, Edició 12677University of Chicago Press, 15 de des. 1994 - 293 pàgines 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 Mersenne, among many others, learned their astronomy. James Lattis uses Clavius's own publications as well as archival materials to trace the central role Clavius played in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian natural philosophy into an orthodox cosmology. Although Clavius strongly resisted the new cosmologies of Copernicus and Tycho, Galileo's invention of the telescope ultimately eroded the Ptolemaic world view. By tracing Clavius's views from medieval cosmology the seventeenth century, Lattis illuminates the conceptual shift from Ptolemaic to Copernican astronomy and the social, intellectual, and theological impact of the Scientific Revolution. |
Continguts
Claviuss Astronomical Work and Life | 1 |
Why Clavius Is Important | 2 |
Clavius and His Reputation | 7 |
Early Life | 12 |
Early Influences | 13 |
Early Career | 18 |
Calendar Reform | 20 |
A Distinguished Professor | 21 |
That the Stars Move in Channels | 102 |
Cosmological Debate and the Rebuttal of Copernicus | 106 |
Cosmological Issues in the Sphaera | 107 |
The Status of the Earth | 117 |
Grounds for Debate | 126 |
Strains on Ptolemaic Cosmology Inside and Out | 145 |
Accommodations to Copernicus | 160 |
Claviuss Theorica planetarum | 173 |
Jesuit Mathematics and Ptolemaic Astronomy | 30 |
Mathematical Sciences in the Jesuit Curriculum | 32 |
Textual Traditions in Medieval Astronomy | 38 |
The Planetary Astronomy of Sacrobosco and Clavius | 45 |
A Note on Parallax | 58 |
The Defense of Ptolemaic Cosmology | 61 |
Did an Orthodox Cosmology Exist? | 62 |
An Orthodox Cosmology | 64 |
The Rival Cosmologies | 86 |
Heterodox Cosmologies | 87 |
Like Birds in the Air or Fish in the Sea | 94 |
Galileo Tycho and the Fate of the Celestial Spheres | 180 |
Galileo at the Collegio Romano | 187 |
Claviuss Reaction to Galileos Discoveries | 195 |
Copernicans in the Collegio Romano? | 202 |
Tychonic Cosmology at the Collegio Romano | 205 |
Fusion of the FluidHeaven and Tychonic Cosmologies | 211 |
Conclusion | 217 |
Notes | 221 |
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