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In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that
the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the center of
a finite universe. But why did Copernicus make this bold proposal?
And why did it matter? The Copernican Question reframes this
pivotal moment in the history of science, centering the story on a
conflict over the credibility of astrology that erupted in Italy
just as Copernicus arrived in 1496. Copernicus engendered enormous
resistance when he sought to protect astrology by reconstituting
its astronomical foundations. Robert S. Westman shows that efforts
to answer the astrological skeptics became a crucial unifying theme
of the early modern scientific movement. His interpretation of this
"long sixteenth century," from the 1490s to the 1610s, offers a new
framework for understanding the great transformations in natural
philosophy in the century that followed.
In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that
the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the center of
a finite universe. But why did Copernicus make this bold proposal?
And why did it matter? "The Copernican Question" reframes this
pivotal moment in the history of science, centering the story on a
conflict over the credibility of astrology that erupted in Italy
just as Copernicus arrived in 1496. Copernicus engendered enormous
resistance when he sought to protect astrology by reconstituting
its astronomical foundations. Robert S. Westman shows that efforts
to answer the astrological skeptics became a crucial unifying theme
of the early modern scientific movement. His interpretation of this
"long sixteenth century," from the 1490s to the 1610s, offers a new
framework for understanding the great transformations in natural
philosophy in the century that followed.
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