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Informationen zum Autor 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). 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 163...
