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The Disputational Culture of Renaissance Astronomy: Johannes Regiomontanus’s “An Terra Moveatur An Quiescat” (2020)

Bardi, Alberto (Author)
Omodeo, Pietro Daniel (Author)

Pages: 233-254

DOI: 10.1163/9789004436206_010

URI: https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004436206/BP000020.xml

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Universities and colleges Scientific innovation Controversies and disputes Copernicanism Astronomy Renaissance 15th century Regiomontanus

Summary This article discusses Regiomontanus’s Disputation on the Motion of the Earth (An Terra moveatur an quiescat, Joannis de Monte Regio disputatio). Given Regiomontanus’s ties with late fifteenth-century Vienna and Padua, his text was very likely defended in a university setting. Later on, it was posthumously printed by the German astronomer Johannes Schöner, at the time when the Copernican theories began to circulate among astronomers and became topics of uttermost interest. All of this shows that academic disputations offered a fertile soil for debates on innovative scientific views. The ex-post insertion of Regiomontanus’s disputation into the Copernican debates on terrestrial motion sheds new light on the lasting legacy of university practices in the time of the ‘Scientific Revolution’. We would like to point to the institutional settings of Regiomontanus’s disputation and of early science in general, at the crossroads of academic practices, scholarly networks and editorial policies.

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