Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance - Reception, Legacy, Transformation

In Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance, Pietro Daniel Omodeo assesses how Copernican astronomy interacted with European culture and examines topics ranging from computation to epistemology, natural philosophy, theology and ethics.

About the author

Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, is member of the Collective Research Centre Episteme in Bewegung, Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on science, philosophy and literature in the Early Modern Period, as well as on historical epistemology.

Product details

• Authors: Pietro Daniel Omodeo
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.06.2014
• EAN: 9789004251786
• ISBN: 978-90-04-25178-6
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 758 g
• Series: Medieval and Early Modern Phil
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy