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- catalog abstract "This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity. It provides an important corrective to the view of science as an autonomous enterprise and presents a new account of the history of interpretations of the significance of the heavens for man.".
- catalog alternative "Genesis der kopernikanischen Welt. English".
- catalog contributor b1806339.
- catalog coverage "Europe History 1492-".
- catalog created "c1987.".
- catalog date "1987".
- catalog date "c1987.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1987.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographies and index.".
- catalog description "Part I: The ambiguous meaning of the heavens -- Cosmos and tragedy -- The heavens as a cave -- At the end of the observer in repose -- The nonsimultaneity of the simultaneous -- The view of the heavens and self-consciousness -- Pure intuition as an anthropological utopia -- The heavens as charming landscape; photography and anthropomorphism -- Anachronism as a need founded in the life-world: realities and simulation".
- catalog description "Part II: The opening up of the possibility of a Copernicus -- The history of what led up to the event as conditioning the history of its effects -- Loosening of the systematic structure through exhaustion of what the system can accomplish -- Transformations of anthropocentrism -- Humanism's idealization of the center of the world -- The intolerability of forgoing truth in favor of technique -- A hypothetical account of the way Copernicus arrived at his theory".
- catalog description "Part III: A typology of Copernicus's early influence -- The theoretician as 'perpetrator' -- Consequences of an instance of well-meaning mis-guidance: Osiander -- The Reformation and Copernicanism -- Perplexities of Copernicus's sole student: Joachim Rheticus -- Not a martyr for Copernicanism: Giordano Bruno -- Experiences with the truth: Galileo".
- catalog description "Part IV: The heavens stand still and time goes on -- How the movement of the heavens was indispensable for the ancient concept of time -- How antiquity's concept of time did not fit in the Middle Ages -- The perfection of the earth as a new precondition for the old concept of time -- The deformation of the earth and absolute time".
- catalog description "Part V: The Copernican comparative -- Perspective as the guide for cosmological expansion -- The Copernican system as a prototypical supersystem -- A retrospect on Lambert's universe, form the twentieth century -- Competing proposals for the system of systems: Kant and Lambert -- What is "Copernican" in Kant's turning?".
- catalog description "Part VI: Vision in the Copernican world -- How horizons of visibility are conditioned by views of man -- The proclamation of the new stars, and one single person's reasons for believing it -- The lack of a 'paratheory' to explain resistance to the telescope -- Reflexive telescopics and geotropic astronautics.".
- catalog description "This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity. It provides an important corrective to the view of science as an autonomous enterprise and presents a new account of the history of interpretations of the significance of the heavens for man.".
- catalog extent "xlviii, 772 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0262022672".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in contemporary German social thought".
- catalog issued "1987".
- catalog issued "c1987.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "engger".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
- catalog spatial "Europe History 1492-".
- catalog subject "113/.09/031 19".
- catalog subject "Astronomy History.".
- catalog subject "Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.".
- catalog subject "Cosmology, to ca. 1900".
- catalog subject "QB28 .B5813 1987".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I: The ambiguous meaning of the heavens -- Cosmos and tragedy -- The heavens as a cave -- At the end of the observer in repose -- The nonsimultaneity of the simultaneous -- The view of the heavens and self-consciousness -- Pure intuition as an anthropological utopia -- The heavens as charming landscape; photography and anthropomorphism -- Anachronism as a need founded in the life-world: realities and simulation".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part II: The opening up of the possibility of a Copernicus -- The history of what led up to the event as conditioning the history of its effects -- Loosening of the systematic structure through exhaustion of what the system can accomplish -- Transformations of anthropocentrism -- Humanism's idealization of the center of the world -- The intolerability of forgoing truth in favor of technique -- A hypothetical account of the way Copernicus arrived at his theory".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part III: A typology of Copernicus's early influence -- The theoretician as 'perpetrator' -- Consequences of an instance of well-meaning mis-guidance: Osiander -- The Reformation and Copernicanism -- Perplexities of Copernicus's sole student: Joachim Rheticus -- Not a martyr for Copernicanism: Giordano Bruno -- Experiences with the truth: Galileo".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part IV: The heavens stand still and time goes on -- How the movement of the heavens was indispensable for the ancient concept of time -- How antiquity's concept of time did not fit in the Middle Ages -- The perfection of the earth as a new precondition for the old concept of time -- The deformation of the earth and absolute time".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part V: The Copernican comparative -- Perspective as the guide for cosmological expansion -- The Copernican system as a prototypical supersystem -- A retrospect on Lambert's universe, form the twentieth century -- Competing proposals for the system of systems: Kant and Lambert -- What is "Copernican" in Kant's turning?".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part VI: Vision in the Copernican world -- How horizons of visibility are conditioned by views of man -- The proclamation of the new stars, and one single person's reasons for believing it -- The lack of a 'paratheory' to explain resistance to the telescope -- Reflexive telescopics and geotropic astronautics.".
- catalog title "Genesis der kopernikanischen Welt. English".
- catalog title "The genesis of the Copernican world / Hans Blumenberg ; translated by Robert M. Wallace.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".