Book ID: CBB733373633

Mathematical Disquisitions: The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo (2017)

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Graney, Christopher M. (Author)


University of Notre Dame Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 176
Language: English

Mathematical Disquisitions: The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo offers a new English translation of the 1614 Disquisitiones Mathematicae, which Johann Georg Locher wrote under the guidance of the German Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner. The booklet, an anti-Copernican astronomical work, is of interest in large part because Galileo Galilei, who came into conflict with Scheiner over the discovery of sunspots, devoted numerous pages within his famous 1632 Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems—Ptolemaic and Copernican to ridiculing Disquisitiones. The brief text (the original was approximately one hundred pages) is heavily illustrated with dozens of original figures, making it an accessible example of "geocentric astronomy in the wake of the telescope."   The treatise provides valuable insight into the astronomical debates of the seventeenth century, a time when the question of the Earth's motion was still very much in flux. Whereas Galileo's works are readily available, there are far fewer translations of works arguing the other side. Christopher Graney's translation focuses on the mathematical and astronomical core of Locher's work and is suitable for undergraduate students in courses on the history of science, philosophy of science, astronomy, and physics.

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Review Albert Van Helden (2019) Review of "Mathematical Disquisitions: The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 404-405). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Graney, Christopher M.
Timberlake, Todd
Wallace, Paul
Nikfahm Khubravan, Sajjad
Spranzi Zuber, Marta
Segonds, Alain-Philippe
Concepts
Astronomy
Cosmology
Heliocentrism
Copernicanism
Science and religion
Geocentrism
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
Early modern
Medieval
Ancient
Places
Italy
Europe
Lisbon (Portugal)
England
Portugal
France
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Royal Society of London
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