Article ID: CBB001420393

Copernicus's Development in Context: Politics, Astrology, Cosmology and a Prince-Bishopric (2014)

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During the two decades before the turning point in Copernicus's personal and scientific development in 1510, he had experience of political activity which has been largely ignored by the existing Copernicus literature but part of which is reconstructed in outline in this paper. Given the close linkage between politics and astrology, Copernicus's likely reaction to astrology is re-examined here. This reconstruction also suggests that the turning point in 1510, when Copernicus left his post as secretary to his uncle Lucas Watzenrode the prince-bishop of Warmia, was not only linked to Copernicus's first version of his heliocentric theory in the Commentariolus, but also to major political setbacks being experienced by Watzenrode during these years, and with the publication of Copernicus's translation of the Letters of Theophylactus Simocatta. Some of these considerations contribute to maintaining the view that Copernicus and his work were in several respects exceptional.

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Authors & Contributors
Westman, Robert S.
Goddu, André
De Pace, Anna
Karas, Marcin
Usher, Peter D.
Sobel, Dava
Concepts
Cosmology
Heliocentrism
Astronomy
Copernicanism
Astrology
Science and religion
Time Periods
16th century
Renaissance
17th century
15th century
Early modern
Ancient
Places
Italy
Poland
Europe
Lisbon (Portugal)
Prague (Czechia)
Bologna (Italy)
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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