Book ID: CBB001032037

Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period (2007)

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Bucciantini, Massimo (Editor)
Camerota, Michele (Editor)
Roux, Sophie (Editor)


Leo S. Olschki


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xv + 210 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Conference publication. Contents:


Includes Chapters

Chapter Bucciantini, Massimo; Camerota, Michele; Roux, Sophie (2007) Introduction. In: Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period. unapi

Chapter Sarnowsky, Jürgen (2007) The Defence of the Ptolemaic System in Late Mediaeval Commentaries on Johannes de Sacrobosco's De Sphaera. In: Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period (p. 29). unapi

Chapter Popplow, Marcus (2007) Setting the World Machine in Motion: The Meaning of Machina Mundi in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. In: Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period (p. 45). unapi

Chapter Granada, Miguel Angel (2007) The Defence of the Movement of the Earth in Rothmann, Maestlin and Kepler: From Heavenly Geometry to Celestial Physics. In: Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period (p. 95). unapi

Chapter Palmerino, Carla Rita (2007) Bodies in Water like Planets in the Skies: Uses and Abuses of Analogical Reasoning in the Study of Planetary Motion. In: Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period (p. 145). unapi

Chapter Guicciardini, Niccolo (2007) “Mechanica Rationalis” and “Philosophia Naturalis” in the Auctoris Praefatio to Newton's Principia. In: Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period (p. 169). unapi

Chapter Shank, Michael H. (2007) Mechanical Thinking in European Astronomy (13th--15th Centuries). In: Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period (p. 3). unapi

Chapter Strano, Giorgio; Truffa, Giancarlo (2007) Tycho Brahe Cosmologist: An Overview on the Genesis, Development and Fortune of the Geo-Heliocentric World-System. In: Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period (p. 73). unapi

Chapter Vermij, Rienk H. (2007) Putting the Earth in Heaven. Philips Lansbergen, the Early Dutch Copernicans and the Mechanization of the World Picture. In: Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period (p. 121). unapi

Chapter Meli, Domenico Bertoloni (2007) Experiment in Newton's Principia: The First Edition. In: Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period (p. 187). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kosso, Peter
Graney, Christopher M.
Timberlake, Todd
Wallace, Paul
Panzica, Aurora
Harper, William
Journals
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Physics in Perspective
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
History of Science
Foundations of Science
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Publishers
York University (Canada)
Springer
Olschki
Les Belles Lettres
Leo S. Olschki
E. Rauner Verlag
Concepts
Astronomy
Cosmology
Celestial mechanics
Copernicanism
Solar system; planets
Heliocentrism
People
Galilei, Galileo
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Kepler, Johannes
Lyly, John,
Peurbach, Georg von
Riccioli, Giovanni Battista
Time Periods
17th century
Medieval
16th century
Renaissance
Early modern
Ancient
Places
Carolingian Empire
England
Prague (Czechia)
Italy
Europe
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