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TS II: Science and Religion (fall 2021)

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  7. [7] November 2 - What was at stake in the Copernican revolution?

    [7] November 2 - What was at stake in the Copernican revolution?

    • [7] November 2 - What was at stake in the Copernican revolution?

      [7] November 2 - What was at stake in the Copernican revolution?

      Assigned reading:

      Osiander's anonymous introduction to Copernicus, De Revolutionibus (1543).

      Nicolas Copernicus, dedication and book 1 of De Revolutionibus (1543). (Latin original) (German translation) (Polish translation) (Russian translation) (Hungarian excerpts)

      Owen Gingerich, "The Copernican Revolution," in Ferngren, ed., Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction, 95-104. 

      Further reading:

      Robert S. Westman, The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order (2011), 1-9, 109-140. 

      George Saliba, Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance (2007).

      Thomas S. Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution (1957).

      Ludwik Birkenmajer, Mikołaj Kopernik, Cz. 1, Studya nad pracami Kopernika oraz materyały biograficzne (1900). 

      Michal Kokowski, Różne oblicza Mikołaja Kopernika (2009).

      A visual aid for thinking about the shift from geocentric to heliocentric systems.

      (Click on image for larger version.)

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      • [1] September 21 - The conflict thesis
      • [2] September 28 - The Greek cosmos. From mythos to logos.
      • [3] October 5 - Plato, Aristotle, and the others
      • [4] October 12 - Christian views of Hellenistic natural philosophy
      • [5] October 19 - Medieval natural history and natural philosophy: Tradition and transformation
      • [6] October 26 - Paris 1277
      • [7] November 2 - What was at stake in the Copernican revolution?
      • [8] November 9 - Natural magic, mathematics, and the Galilean moment
      • [9] November 16 - Mechanical philosophies
      • [10] November 23 - Newtonian heterodoxies
      • [11] November 30 - Darwinian themes
      • [12] December 7 - Cosmology and liberal theology
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