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The Copernican Achievement (Contributions of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 7)

Robert S. Westman

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Description:The notion of scientific achievement may have both descriptive and normative meanings, and it may refer to an act of individual discovery as well as to the tradition of research founded upon that innovation. The essays gathered in this volume to honour the 500th anniversary of the birth of Nicholas Copernicus well illustrate the diversity of issues that may be assembled under the rubric "Copernican Achievement". Finely honed technical analyses of Copernicus' astronomy; studies of his early formative years at the university; the intriguing circumstances surrounding the publication of De revolutionibus and the virtually unknown career of Copernicus' "editor", Andreas Osiander; the complex and difficult question of how the new theory was received by academic natural philosophers and astronomers; the equally demanding philosophical problem of establishing universal conditions according to which the Copernican theory might be compared to the Ptolemaic as a scientific theory; the historical and conceptual preconditions for a scientific revolution of the sort inaugurated by Copernicus - such is a wide range of issues considered in this volume.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Copernican Achievement (Contributions of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 7). To get started finding The Copernican Achievement (Contributions of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 7), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The notion of scientific achievement may have both descriptive and normative meanings, and it may refer to an act of individual discovery as well as to the tradition of research founded upon that innovation. The essays gathered in this volume to honour the 500th anniversary of the birth of Nicholas Copernicus well illustrate the diversity of issues that may be assembled under the rubric "Copernican Achievement". Finely honed technical analyses of Copernicus' astronomy; studies of his early formative years at the university; the intriguing circumstances surrounding the publication of De revolutionibus and the virtually unknown career of Copernicus' "editor", Andreas Osiander; the complex and difficult question of how the new theory was received by academic natural philosophers and astronomers; the equally demanding philosophical problem of establishing universal conditions according to which the Copernican theory might be compared to the Ptolemaic as a scientific theory; the historical and conceptual preconditions for a scientific revolution of the sort inaugurated by Copernicus - such is a wide range of issues considered in this volume.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Copernican Achievement (Contributions of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 7). To get started finding The Copernican Achievement (Contributions of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 7), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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