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The Place of Edward Gresham's Astrostereon (1603) in the Discussion on Cosmology and the Bible in the Early Modern Period (2020)

British Journal for the History of Science
Volume: 53
Issue: 4
Pages: 417-442

URI: http://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-for-the-history-of-science/article/place-of-edward-greshams-astrostereon-1603-in-the-discussion-on-cosmology-and-the-bible-in-the-early-modern-period/4A0BBEA8D46280AC9C28FA0639A8BA2E

DOI: 10.1017/S0007087420000345

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Heliocentrism Bible Cosmology 16th century 17th century England Gresham, Edward

This article situates Edward Gresham's Astrostereon, or A Discourse of the Falling of the Planet (1603), a little-known English astronomical treatise, in the context of the cosmo-theological debate on the reconciliation of heliocentrism with the Bible, triggered by the publication of Nicholas Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543. Covering the period from the appearance of the ‘First Account’ of Copernican views presented in Georg Joachim Rheticus's Narratio Prima (1540) to the composition of Astrostereon in 1603, this paper places Edward Gresham's commentary and exegesis against the background of the views expressed by his countrymen and the thinkers associated with the Wittenberg University – such as Philipp Melanchthon, Caspar Peucer, and Christoph Rothmann. Comparing the ways in which they employed certain biblical passages – either in favour of or against the Earth's mobility – the paper emphasizes Gresham's ingenious reading of the Hebrew version of the problematic excerpts, and his expansion of the accommodation principle.

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