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Michael Maestlin (1550-1631), professor of mathematics at the University of Tübingen, was a leading protagonist of the astronomical and cosmological revolution that began with Copernicus. Famous for first introducing Copernicanism to Kepler, Maestlin also wrote important treatises on the supernova of 1572 and the comet of 1577 that mark significant steps in the elimination of celestial immutability and the reinforcement of the Copernican worldview. This first critical edition of Maestlin's German manuscript treatise on the comet of 1618 is accompanied by an English translation and a thorough commentary. An extensive introduction situates Maestlin's treatise in the broader context of the contemporary politico-religious conflict and cosmological discussion newly expanded to the debate on sunspots discovered with the telescope.
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Miguel Á. Granada is Emeritus Professor of History of Renaissance Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. His publications include
El debate cosmológico en 1588: Bruno, Brahe, Rothmann, Ursus, Röslin (Bibliopolis, 1996), the edition of Christoph Rothmann's
Discourse on the Comet of 1585 (Brill, 2014) with Adam Mosley and Nicholas Jardine, and Giordano Bruno,
'De immenso': Letture critiche (Fabrizio Serra, 2020), coedited with Dario Tessicini.
Patrick J. Boner is a Visiting Scholar in the School of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of several studies on early modern science, including
Kepler's Cosmological Synthesis: Astrology, Mechanism and the Soul (Brill, 2013) and
Kepler's New Star (1604): Context and Controversy (Brill, 2021).
