Article ID: CBB403628444

Birkenmajer's Copernicus: Historical Context, Original Insights, and Contributions to Current Debates (2018)

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Ludwik Antoni Birkenmajer (1855-1929), following along the paths pioneered by Leopold Prowe, Maximilian Curtze, Franz Hipler, and J. L. E. Dreyer, joined them as trailblazers of Copernican scholarship in the nineteenth century. Educated in the classics and mathematics, Birkenmajer began by examining more closely the Cracow background to Copernicus's development and studying his works and annotations in books he owned or read. Birkenmajer contributed many discoveries that eventually became common knowledge, and his studies loomed over Polish research on Copernicus into the 1970s. Focusing on historical context and his original insights, the essay reminds readers of his contributions (sections 1–2), relates them to discussions of Copernicus's precursors (section 3), to the debate about Maragha precedents (section 4), his reading of the Uppsala Notebook (sections 2 and 5), and his account of the origin of Copernicus's heliocentrism (section 6). By means of a more critical assessment of his interpretation, the essay revises earlier accounts, rescuing the original insights that mark Birkenmajer's most important contributions to current debates and his efforts to reconstruct Copernicus's path to heliocentrism.

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Authors & Contributors
De Pace, Anna
Lerner, Michel-Pierre
Beretta, Francesco
Biro, Jacqueline
Bucciantini, Massimo
Camerota, Michele
Journals
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
British Journal for the History of Science
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Bruno Mondadori
Leo S. Olschki
Les Belles Lettres
Olschki
Springer
Concepts
Heliocentrism
Astronomy
Copernicanism
Cosmology
Science and religion
Revolutions in science
People
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Galilei, Galileo
Bruno, Giordano
Kepler, Johannes
Baranzano, Redento
Birkenmajer, Ludwik Antoni
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
Renaissance
Ancient
Medieval
Places
Italy
Europe
France
Great Britain
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