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Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology
Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the standards by which Galileo's famous claims appeared so radical, and whose teachings guided the intellectual and scientific agenda of the Church in the central years of t...
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1994
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author | Lattis, James M |
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description | Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the standards by which Galileo's famous claims appeared so radical, and whose teachings guided the intellectual and scientific agenda of the Church in the central years of the Scientific Revolution. Though relatively unknown today, Clavius was enormously influential throughout Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through his astronomy books—the standard texts used in many colleges and universities, and the tools with which Descartes, Gassendi, and Me |
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spelling | cern-14127922021-04-22T00:44:10Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/1412792engLattis, James MBetween Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic CosmologyAstrophysics and AstronomyBetween Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the standards by which Galileo's famous claims appeared so radical, and whose teachings guided the intellectual and scientific agenda of the Church in the central years of the Scientific Revolution. Though relatively unknown today, Clavius was enormously influential throughout Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through his astronomy books—the standard texts used in many colleges and universities, and the tools with which Descartes, Gassendi, and MeThe University of Chicago Pressoai:cds.cern.ch:14127921994 |
spellingShingle | Astrophysics and Astronomy Lattis, James M Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology |
title | Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology |
title_full | Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology |
title_fullStr | Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology |
title_full_unstemmed | Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology |
title_short | Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology |
title_sort | between copernicus and galileo: christoph clavius and the collapse of ptolemaic cosmology |
topic | Astrophysics and Astronomy |
url | http://cds.cern.ch/record/1412792 |
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