[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.)