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" The Copernican achievement / "
edited by Robert S. Westman.
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BL
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583721
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b412940
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The Copernican achievement /\ edited by Robert S. Westman.
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, 1975.
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| Series Statement
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Contributions of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies ;; 7
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xvi, 405 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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0520028775
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: 9780520028777
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| Notes
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Papers from a symposium held at the University of California at Los Angeles, Nov. 1-2, 1973.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: The Copernican achievement / Robert S. Westman -- Rheticus, Ravetz, and the "necessity" of Copernicus' innovation / Curtis A. Wilson -- Commentary / Salomon Bochner -- On Copernicus' theory of precession / Noel Swerdlow -- Commentary: Remarks on Copernicus' observations / Owen Gingerich -- Erasmus Reinhold's determination of the distance of the Sun from the Earth / Janice Henderson -- Commentary: The role of error in ancient methods for determining the solar distance / Ernest S. Abers, Charles F. Kennel -- The arts faculty at the University of Cracow at the end of the fifteenth century / Paul W. Knoll -- Commentary: In defense of context / Nicholas H. Steneck -- The dialectical preparation for scientific revolutions / Amos Funkenstein -- Commentary: Dialectical aspects of the Copernican revolution: conceptual elucidations and historiographical problems / Maurice A. Finocchiaro -- Andreas Osiander's contribution to the Copernican achievement / Bruce Wrightsman -- The solid planetary spheres in post-Copernican natural philosophy / William H. Donahue -- Commentary: Duhem and Donahue / John L. Heilbron -- Three responses to the Copernican theory: Johannes Praetorius, Tycho Brahe, and Michael Maestlin / Robert S. Westman -- Commentary: Fictionalism and realism in sixteenth-century astronomy / Peter K. Machamer -- Why did Copernicus' research program supersede Ptolemy's? / Imre Lakatos and Elie Zahar -- Commentary / Stephen E. Toulmin.
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Copernicus, Nicolaus,1473-1543.
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Astronomy-- History.
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Renaissance.
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QB28.C66
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Westman, Robert S.
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