[PDF] The Copernican Question eBook

Author : Robert Westman
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0520355695

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In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the center of a finite universe. But why did Copernicus make this bold proposal? And why did it matter? The Copernican Question reframes this pivotal moment in the history of science, centering the story on a conflict over the credibility of astrology that erupted in Italy just as Copernicus arrived in 1496. Copernicus engendered enormous resistance when he sought to protect astrology by reconstituting its astronomical foundations. Robert S. Westman shows that efforts to answer the astrological skeptics became a crucial unifying theme of the early modern scientific movement. His interpretation of this long sixteenth century, from the 1490s to the 1610s, offers a new framework for understanding the great transformations in natural philosophy in the century that followed.

Author : Keith Parsons
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 2005-09-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780072850208

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This provocative, focused, and succinct new text addresses two issues integral to the study of the philosophy of science: the rationality of science and the realism question. Students are invited to think deeply about salient issues as they explore collections of cases and examples, beginning by considering the founding document of modern science, Copernicus’s On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, and including discussions of other key readings such as Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Author Keith Parsons challenges students’ thinking, offering his own views while providing a solid foundation for debate.

Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 1957
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674171039

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An account of the Copernican Revolution, focusing on the significance of the plurality of the revolution which encompassed not only mathematical astronomy, but also conceptual changes in cosmology, physics, philosophy, and religion.

Author : I. Dilman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 023059901X

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Wittgenstein's Copernican Revolution is concerned with how one is to conceive of the relation between language and reality without embracing Linguistic Realism and without courting any form of Linguistic Idealism either. It argues that this is precisely what Wittgenstein does and also examines some well known contemporary philosophers who have been concerned with this same question.

Author : Hans Blumenberg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262022675

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This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity.

Author : Michael J. Crowe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486315592

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Revised edition re-creates the change from an earth- to a sun-centered conception of the solar system by focusing on an examination of the evidence available in 1615.

Author : Galileo
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 2001-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 037575766X

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Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, proving, for the first time, that the earth revolves around the sun. Its influence is incalculable. The Dialogue is not only one of the most important scientific treatises ever written, but a work of supreme clarity and accessibility, remaining as readable now as when it was first published. This edition uses the definitive text established by the University of California Press, in Stillman Drake’s translation, and includes a Foreword by Albert Einstein and a new Introduction by J. L. Heilbron.

Author : Dave Pruett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 18,39 MB
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0313399204

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In this enlightening and provocative exploration, Dave Pruett sets out a revolutionary new understanding of our place in the universe, one that reconciles the rational demands of science with the deeper tugs of spirituality. Defining a moment in human self-awareness four centuries in the making, Reason and Wonder: A Copernican Revolution in Science and Spirit offers a way to move beyond the either/or choice of reason versus intuition—a dichotomy that ultimately leaves either the mind or the heart wanting. In doing so, it seeks to resolve an age-old conflict at the root of much human dysfunction, including today's global ecological crisis. An outgrowth of C. David Pruett's breakthrough undergraduate honors course, "From Black Elk to Black Holes: Shaping Myth for a New Millennium," Reason and Wonder embraces the insights of modern science and the wisdom of spiritual traditions to "re-enchant the universe." The new "myth of meaning" unfolds as the story of three successive "Copernican revolutions"—cosmological, biological, and spiritual—offers an expansive view of human potential as revolutionary as the work of Copernicus, Galilleo, and Darwin.

Author : Jeremy Brown
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199754799

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Jeremy Brown offers the first major study of the Jewish reception of the Copernican revolution, examining four hundred years of Jewish writings on the Copernican model. Brown shows the ways in which Jews ignored, rejected, or accepted the Copernican model, and the theological and societal underpinnings of their choices.