The Dawn of Modern Cosmology

Informationen zum Autor Aviva Rothman (External Editor, Translator) Aviva Rothman is Associate Professor of History at Case Western University. She is a historian of science whose work focuses on the early modern period, and is the author of The Pursuit of Harmony: Kepler on Cosmos, Confession and Community (University of Chicago Press, 2017). Klappentext New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it about In the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Just over two centuries later, everything had changed. Not only was the sun the centre of creation, but the entire practice of science had been revolutionised. This is the story of that astonishing transformation, told through the words of the astronomers and mathematicians at its heart. Bringing together excerpts from the works and letters of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and others for the first time, The Dawn of Modern Cosmology is the definitive record of one of the great turning points in human history. Edited with Translations, Notes and an Introduction by Aviva Rothman Zusammenfassung New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it about A Penguin Classic In the late fifteenth century, the earth stood motionless at the center of a small, ordered cosmos. Around us, it was believed, the moon, the sun, and the planets revolved in crystalline spheres, their orbits perfect, eternally unchanging circles. Just over a century later, the sun was now the center of creation; the earth just another planet hurtling through empty, near-infinite space. This is the story of an astonishing change, a transformation in human thought, about both the universe and our place within it, told through the words of the astronomers and mathematicians at its heart. Encompassing the most evocative excerpts from the works and letters of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, and others, and including guiding notes from renowned historian of science, Aviva Rothman, The Dawn of Modern Cosmology is the definitive record of one of science's greatest achievements. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction A Note on Translation Timeline of Key Events Hartmann Schedel, Seventh Day from Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493 Nicolaus Copernicus, Little Commentary, 1514 Georg Joachim Rheticus, First Account, 1540 To the Reader, Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, 1543 Copernicus, Prefatory Material from On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, 1543 Copernicus, Book One, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, 1543 Copernicus, Heliocentric System from On the Revolutions, 1543 Copernicus, Tusi Couple from On the Revolutions,1543 Erasmus Reinhold, Prutenic Tables, 1551 Robert Recorde, The Castle of Knowledge, 1556 Tycho Brahe, On the New Star, 1573 Thomas Digges, A Perfect Description of the Celestial Orbs, 1576 Digges, Frontispiece, A Perfect Description of the Celestial Orbs, 1576 Diego de Zúñiga of Salamanca, Commentary on Job, 1584 Giordano Bruno, Ash Wednesday Supper, 1584 Tycho Brahe, On Recent Celestial Phenomena, 1588 Johannes Kepler, Cosmographic Mystery, 1596 Galileo Galilei and Kepler, Correspondence, 1597 Brahe, Instruments of a Restored Astronomy, 1598 William Gilbert, On the Magnet, 1600 Kepler, The Dream, 1608 (published 1634) Kepler, A New Astronomy Based upon Causes, or Celestial Physics, Treated by Means of Commentaries on the Motions of Mars, 1609 Kepler, Orbit of Mars, from New Astronomy, 1609 Galileo Galilei, The Starry Messeng...

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Aviva Rothman (External Editor, Translator)
Aviva Rothman is Associate Professor of History at Case Western University. She is a historian of science whose work focuses on the early modern period, and is the author of The Pursuit of Harmony: Kepler on Cosmos, Confession and Community (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

Klappentext

New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it about

In the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Just over two centuries later, everything had changed. Not only was the sun the centre of creation, but the entire practice of science had been revolutionised. This is the story of that astonishing transformation, told through the words of the astronomers and mathematicians at its heart. Bringing together excerpts from the works and letters of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and others for the first time, The Dawn of Modern Cosmology is the definitive record of one of the great turning points in human history.

Edited with Translations, Notes and an Introduction by Aviva Rothman

Inhalt
Introduction
A Note on Translation
Timeline of Key Events
Hartmann Schedel, Seventh Day from Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493
Nicolaus Copernicus, Little Commentary, 1514
Georg Joachim Rheticus, First Account, 1540
To the Reader, Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, 1543
Copernicus, Prefatory Material from On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, 1543
Copernicus, Book One, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, 1543
Copernicus, Heliocentric System from On the Revolutions, 1543
Copernicus, Tusi Couple from On the Revolutions,1543
Erasmus Reinhold, Prutenic Tables, 1551
Robert Recorde, The Castle of Knowledge, 1556
Tycho Brahe, On the New Star, 1573
Thomas Digges, A Perfect Description of the Celestial Orbs, 1576
Digges, Frontispiece, A Perfect Description of the Celestial Orbs, 1576
Diego de Zúñiga of Salamanca, Commentary on Job, 1584
Giordano Bruno, Ash Wednesday Supper, 1584
Tycho Brahe, On Recent Celestial Phenomena, 1588
Johannes Kepler, Cosmographic Mystery, 1596
Galileo Galilei and Kepler, Correspondence, 1597
Brahe, Instruments of a Restored Astronomy, 1598
William Gilbert, On the Magnet, 1600
Kepler, The Dream, 1608 (published 1634)
Kepler, A New Astronomy Based upon Causes, or Celestial Physics, Treated by Means of
Commentaries on the Motions of Mars, 1609
Kepler, Orbit of Mars, from New Astronomy, 1609
Galileo Galilei, The Starry Messenger, 1610
Kepler, Conversation with The Starry Messenger, 1610
Kepler, Dioptrics, 1611
John Donne, ‘First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World’, 1611
Christoph Scheiner and Galileo, Letters on Sunspots, 1612–1613
Galileo, Letters on Sunspots, Image of Sunspots, 1613
Galileo, Letter to Benedetto Castelli, 1613
Simon Marius, The Jovian World, 1614
Johannes Locher, Mathematical Disquisitions Concerning Astronomical Controversies
and Novelties, 1614
Paolo Antonio Foscarini, Letter on the Pythagorean and Copernican Opinion about the Mobility
of the Earth, 1615
Robert Bellarmine, Letter to Foscarini, 1615
Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, 1615
Galileo and the Inquisition, 1615–1616
Kepler, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy,
Book One, 1618
Kepler, The Harmony of the World, 1619
Kepler, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, Book Four, 1620
Tommaso Campanella, Apologia for Galileo, 1622
Galileo, The Assayer, 1623
Galileo, Phases of Venus from The Assayer, 1623
Kepler, Frontispiece, Rudolphine Tables, 1627
The Vatican Secretary to the Florentine Inquisitor, 24 May 1631
Galileo, Dialogue on the Great World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Frontispiece and
Title Page, 1632
Galileo, Dialogue on the Great World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, 1632
Campanella, Letter to Galileo, 1632
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