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- catalog abstract ""This volume deals with the tracts - Latin and vernacular - published in the Netherlands on the comets of 1577 and 1618. Central to the book is the question of how these cometary appearances influenced the Aristotelian world view." "This is the first lengthy examination of the decline of Aristotelian cosmology in the Netherlands. Its demonstration of the connection between cosmological and political views renders the book useful to historians of general Dutch history, as well as historians of science."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10961462.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""This volume deals with the tracts - Latin and vernacular - published in the Netherlands on the comets of 1577 and 1618. Central to the book is the question of how these cometary appearances influenced the Aristotelian world view." "This is the first lengthy examination of the decline of Aristotelian cosmology in the Netherlands. Its demonstration of the connection between cosmological and political views renders the book useful to historians of general Dutch history, as well as historians of science."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 603 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "9004112049 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 89".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Leiden ; Boston : Brill,".
- catalog spatial "Netherlands".
- catalog subject "509.492/09/032 21".
- catalog subject "Aristotle Knowledge Astronomy.".
- catalog subject "Aristotle.".
- catalog subject "Astronomy Netherlands History.".
- catalog subject "Comets 1577.".
- catalog subject "Comets 1618.".
- catalog subject "Janus (Roman deity)".
- catalog subject "QB724 .N68 1998".
- catalog title "The age of two-faced Janus : the comets of 1577 and 1618 and the decline of the Aristotelian world view in the Netherlands / by Tabitta van Nouhuys.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".