Between Copernicus and Galileo

Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology

By: James M. Lattis

Write A Review

Paperback | 12 December 1995 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback
314 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
23.27 x 16.38 x 1.68

Paperback

$124.90

or 4 interest-free payments of $31.23 with

Aims to ship in 15 to 25 business days

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 Mersenne, among many others, learned their astronomy. James Lattis uses Clavius's own publications as well as archival materials to trace the central role Clavius played in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian natural philosophy into an orthodox cosmology. Although Clavius strongly resisted the new cosmologies of Copernicus and Tycho, Galileo's invention of the telescope ultimately eroded the Ptolemaic world view.
By tracing Clavius's views from medieval cosmology the seventeenth century, Lattis illuminates the conceptual shift from Ptolemaic to Copernican astronomy and the social, intellectual, and theological impact of the Scientific Revolution.

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.

For more info please visit our Help Centre.

You Can Find This Book In

Non-Fiction Science Astronomy, Space & Time Cosmology & The Universe Religion & Beliefs Religion History General & World History Science in General Earliest Times to Present Day Early Modern History from 1450 to 1700 Regional & National History

European History Miscellaneous Items

List of Illustrations
Preface Note on Editions
Clavius's Astronomical Work and Life
Jesuit Mathematics and Ptolemaic Astronomy
The Defense of Ptolemaic Cosmology
The Rival Cosmologies
Cosmological Debate and the Rebuttal of Copernicus
Strains on Ptolemaic Cosmology, Inside and Out
Galileo, Tycho, and the Fate of the Celestial Spheres
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

Between Copernicus and Galileo

Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology

At a Glance

Paperback

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in History

Welcome to Pawnee

Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation

Gold

The true story of the discovery of gold in Australia and the shameless pretender who took the credit, from the popular author of RUM, perfect for fans of Grantlee Kieza and David Hunt

Between Two Rivers

'A WONDERFUL READ' -- TOM HOLLAND

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Miles Franklin Undercover

The little-known years when she created her own brilliant career

Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife

The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women

I Will Come Back for You

The undercover Jewish commando who helped defeat the Nazis

The Doctor of Hiroshima

His heart-breaking and inspiring true life story

A Mother's Promise

My true story of surviving Auschwitz and the horrors of the Holocaust, the Sunday Times bestseller

Half of a Yellow Sun

Looking At Women, Looking At War

Killers of the Flower Moon

Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI

Oxford Humanities 7 Student Book+Student obook pro

2nd Edition - Victorian Curriculum

Oxford Humanities 9 Student Book+obook pro

2nd Edition - Victorian Curriculum

Oxford Humanities and Social Sciences 7 Student Book+obook pro

2nd Edition - Australian Curriculum

Abandoned Women : Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas

Junior Atlas of Indigenous Australia

Introduction to Medieval Europe 300-1500

4th Edition

The Gulag Archipelago

1918-56

The Journals of Captain Cook

Penguin Classics

Night

Penguin Modern Classics

Girt

The Unauthorised History of Australia

Ned Kelly

The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend

Say Nothing

True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland

This product is categorised by