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Galileo and the Church: Political Inquisition or Critical Dialogue?
ISBN: 9780521344685 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Historians of science have tended to view Galileo's trials as an example of the conflict between science and religion in the seventeenth century. This book questions the traditional "grand narrative" that opposes science and religion, and thus attempts to reconceptualize a key episode in the history of modern science. Feldhay offers a new interpretation of the debate between Galileo and the Church, viewing it as a "dialogue" rather than a "conflict." The known contradictions between the documents of Galileo's "trials" are reread as expressions of the contradictory nature of the Counter...
Historians of science have tended to view Galileo's trials as an example of the conflict between science and religion in the seventeenth century. This...
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Before Copernicus: The Cultures and Contexts of Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth Century: Volume 71
ISBN: 9780773550100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In 1984, Noel Swerdlow and Otto Neugebauer argued that Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) explained planetary motion by using mathematical devices and astronomical models originally developed by Islamic astronomers in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Was this a parallel development, or did Copernicus somehow learn of the work of his predecessors, and if so, how? And if Copernicus did use material from the Islamic world, how then should we understand the European context of his innovative cosmology? Although Copernicus's work has been subject to a number of excellent studies, there has...
In 1984, Noel Swerdlow and Otto Neugebauer argued that Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) explained planetary motion by using mathematical devices and as...
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216,97 zł |