{"product_id":"the-making-of-copernicus-early-modern-transformations-of-a-scientist-and-his-science-9789004281103","title":"The Making of Copernicus: Early Modern Transformations of a Scientist and his Science","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume articles examine exemplarily how some of the Copernicus myths came about and if they could hold their ground. They investigate methodological, institutional, textual and visual transformations of the Copernican doctrine and the topical, rhetorical and literary transformations of the historical person of Copernicus respectively.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Recommended. Researchers\/faculty and professionals.“ Mary Kay Hemenway, University of Texas at Austin. In: CHOICE, Vol. 52, No. 11 (July 2015).  “excellent essays.” André Goddu, Stonehill College. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Spring 2016), pp. 264-266.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations  Introduction: The Making of Copernicus WOLFGANG NEUBER, THOMAS RAHN, CLAUS ZITTEL   PART ONE  THE COPERNICAN TURN:  METHODOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND REJECTIONS  The Decline of Medieval Disputation Culture and the ‘Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory’ STEFAN KIRSCHNER, ANDREAS KÜHNE   The Silence of the Wolves, Or, Why it Took the Holy Inquisition Seventy-Three Years to Ban Copernicanism GEREON WOLTERS  A Natural History of the Heavens: Francis Bacon’s Anti-Copernicanism DANA JALOBEANU   Hume’s Copernican Turn TAMÁS DEMETER   PART TWO  NEW ASTRONOMY: TEXTUAL AND GRAPHIC TRANSFORMATIONS  Arguing for One’s World. Copernicus’s Theories and Their Reception in Jean Bodins Theatrum JONATHAN SCHÜZ  Writing after Copernicus. Epistemology and Poetics in Giordano Bruno’s Ash Wednesday Supper STEFFEN SCHNEIDER  Die Erde als Mond. Kopernikanische Wenden in Raumreiserzählungen des 17. Jahrhunderts (Kepler, Godwin, Cyrano de Bergerac) THOMAS RAHN  Decentralisation of the Sun as Beginning of Modernity. The Transition from Copernicanism to the Plurality of Worlds in French Engravings LUCÍA AYALA   PART THREE  NEW ASTRONOMERS: BIOGRAPHICAL TRANSFORMATIONS  Timid Mathematicians vs. Daring Explorers of the Infinite Cosmos: Giordano Bruno, Literary Self-Fashioning and De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. SERGIUS KODERA  ‘Copernicus Found a Treasure the True Value of Which He Did Not Know at All’. The Life of Copernicus by Pierre Gassendi  CLAUS ZITTEL  Hero of the Bourgeois World. Copernicus and His Afterlife in German Literature WOLFGANG NEUBER  Max Brod: Tycho Brahes Weg zu Gott JÖRG JUNGMAYR  Index Nominum","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210655457623,"sku":"9789004281103","price":140.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-making-of-copernicus-early-modern-transformations-of-a-scientist-and-his-science-9789004281103","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}