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The Copernican achievement /

0520028775

9780520028777

b412940

The Copernican achievement /

[Book]

edited by Robert S. Westman.

Berkeley :

University of California Press,

1975.

xvi, 405 p. :

ill. ;

24 cm.

Contributions of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies ;

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Papers from a symposium held at the University of California at Los Angeles, Nov. 1-2, 1973.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Copernican achievement / Robert S. Westman -- Rheticus, Ravetz, and the "necessity" of Copernicus' innovation / Curtis A. Wilson -- Commentary / Salomon Bochner -- On Copernicus' theory of precession / Noel Swerdlow -- Commentary: Remarks on Copernicus' observations / Owen Gingerich -- Erasmus Reinhold's determination of the distance of the Sun from the Earth / Janice Henderson -- Commentary: The role of error in ancient methods for determining the solar distance / Ernest S. Abers, Charles F. Kennel -- The arts faculty at the University of Cracow at the end of the fifteenth century / Paul W. Knoll -- Commentary: In defense of context / Nicholas H. Steneck -- The dialectical preparation for scientific revolutions / Amos Funkenstein -- Commentary: Dialectical aspects of the Copernican revolution: conceptual elucidations and historiographical problems / Maurice A. Finocchiaro -- Andreas Osiander's contribution to the Copernican achievement / Bruce Wrightsman -- The solid planetary spheres in post-Copernican natural philosophy / William H. Donahue -- Commentary: Duhem and Donahue / John L. Heilbron -- Three responses to the Copernican theory: Johannes Praetorius, Tycho Brahe, and Michael Maestlin / Robert S. Westman -- Commentary: Fictionalism and realism in sixteenth-century astronomy / Peter K. Machamer -- Why did Copernicus' research program supersede Ptolemy's? / Imre Lakatos and Elie Zahar -- Commentary / Stephen E. Toulmin.

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Copernican achievement.

Copernicus, Nicolaus,1473-1543.

Astronomy-- History.

Renaissance.

Westman, Robert S.

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