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- catalog abstract ""Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer who played a central role in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian world views into the Church's accepted teachings. When Galileo first collided with the Church over his own work, he was in effect combatting a cosmological and intellectual agenda Clavius had worked to create, and a coterie of Church intellectuals Clavius had helped to educate." "By tracing Clavius's views from their medieval origins into the seventeenth century, Lattis illuminates the conceptual shift from Ptolemaic to Copernican astronomy and the social, intellectual, and theological impact of the Scientific Revolution."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b6493618.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ""Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer who played a central role in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian world views into the Church's accepted teachings. When Galileo first collided with the Church over his own work, he was in effect combatting a cosmological and intellectual agenda Clavius had worked to create, and a coterie of Church intellectuals Clavius had helped to educate." "By tracing Clavius's views from their medieval origins into the seventeenth century, Lattis illuminates the conceptual shift from Ptolemaic to Copernican astronomy and the social, intellectual, and theological impact of the Scientific Revolution."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Clavius's Astronomical Work and Life -- 2. Jesuit Mathematics and Ptolemaic Astronomy -- 3. The Defense of Ptolemaic Cosmology -- 4. The Rival Cosmologies -- 5. Cosmological Debate and the Rebuttal of Copernicus -- 6. Strains on Ptolemaic Cosmology, Inside and Out -- 7. Galileo, Tycho, and the Fate of the Celestial Spheres.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-284) and index.".
- catalog extent "xix, 293 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226469271".
- catalog identifier "0226469298 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "523.1 20".
- catalog subject "Astronomy, Medieval.".
- catalog subject "Clavius, Christoph, 1538-1612.".
- catalog subject "Cosmology, Medieval.".
- catalog subject "Cosmology.".
- catalog subject "Ptolemy, active 2nd century.".
- catalog subject "QB981 .L32 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Clavius's Astronomical Work and Life -- 2. Jesuit Mathematics and Ptolemaic Astronomy -- 3. The Defense of Ptolemaic Cosmology -- 4. The Rival Cosmologies -- 5. Cosmological Debate and the Rebuttal of Copernicus -- 6. Strains on Ptolemaic Cosmology, Inside and Out -- 7. Galileo, Tycho, and the Fate of the Celestial Spheres.".
- catalog title "Between Copernicus and Galileo : Christoph Clavius and the collapse of Ptolemaic cosmology / James M. Lattis.".
- catalog type "text".