Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, René Descartes, Isaac Newton

The Dawn of Modern Cosmology (eBook, ePUB)

From Copernicus to Newton
Redaktion: Rothman, Aviva / Übersetzer: Rothman, Aviva

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Produktbeschreibung

New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it about

In the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Just over two centuries later, everything had changed. Not only was the sun the centre of creation, but the entire practice of science had been revolutionised. This is the story of that astonishing transformation, told through the words of the astronomers and mathematicians at its heart. Bringing together excerpts from the works and letters of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and others for the first time, The Dawn of Modern Cosmology is the definitive record of one of the great turning points in human history.

Edited with Translations, Notes and an Introduction by Aviva Rothman

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780241360644
• Artikelnr.: 65446152

Autorenporträt

Aviva Rothman (External Editor, Translator)
Aviva Rothman is Associate Professor of History at Case Western University. She is a historian of science whose work focuses on the early modern period, and is the author of The Pursuit of Harmony: Kepler on Cosmos, Confession and Community (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction A Note on Translation Timeline of Key Events Hartmann Schedel
Seventh Day from Nuremberg Chronicle
1493 Nicolaus Copernicus
Little Commentary
1514 Georg Joachim Rheticus
First Account
1540 To the Reader
Copernicus
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
1543 Copernicus
Prefatory Material from On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
1543 Copernicus
Book One
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
1543 Copernicus
Heliocentric System from On the Revolutions
1543 Copernicus
Tusi Couple from On the Revolutions
1543 Erasmus Reinhold
Prutenic Tables
1551 Robert Recorde
The Castle of Knowledge
1556 Tycho Brahe
On the New Star
1573 Thomas Digges
A Perfect Description of the Celestial Orbs
1576 Digges
Frontispiece
A Perfect Description of the Celestial Orbs
1576 Diego de Zúñiga of Salamanca
Commentary on Job
1584 Giordano Bruno
Ash Wednesday Supper
1584 Tycho Brahe
On Recent Celestial Phenomena
1588 Johannes Kepler
Cosmographic Mystery
1596 Galileo Galilei and Kepler
Correspondence
1597 Brahe
Instruments of a Restored Astronomy
1598 William Gilbert
On the Magnet
1600 Kepler
The Dream
1608 (published 1634) Kepler
A New Astronomy Based upon Causes
or Celestial Physics
Treated by Means of Commentaries on the Motions of Mars
1609 Kepler
Orbit of Mars
from New Astronomy
1609 Galileo Galilei
The Starry Messenger
1610 Kepler
Conversation with The Starry Messenger
1610 Kepler
Dioptrics
1611 John Donne
‘First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World’
1611 Christoph Scheiner and Galileo
Letters on Sunspots
1612–1613 Galileo
Letters on Sunspots
Image of Sunspots
1613 Galileo
Letter to Benedetto Castelli
1613 Simon Marius
The Jovian World
1614 Johannes Locher
Mathematical Disquisitions Concerning Astronomical Controversies and Novelties
1614 Paolo Antonio Foscarini
Letter on the Pythagorean and Copernican Opinion about the Mobility of the Earth
1615 Robert Bellarmine
Letter to Foscarini
1615 Galileo
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
1615 Galileo and the Inquisition
1615–1616 Kepler
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
Book One
1618 Kepler
The Harmony of the World
1619 Kepler
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
Book Four
1620 Tommaso Campanella
Apologia for Galileo
1622 Galileo
The Assayer
1623 Galileo
Phases of Venus from The Assayer
1623 Kepler
Frontispiece
Rudolphine Tables
1627 The Vatican Secretary to the Florentine Inquisitor
24 May 1631 Galileo
Dialogue on the Great World Systems
Ptolemaic and Copernican
Frontispiece and Title Page
1632 Galileo
Dialogue on the Great World Systems
Ptolemaic and Copernican
1632 Campanella
Letter to Galileo
1632 Galileo
Trial Documents
1632–1633 René Descartes
The World
or a Treatise on Light
c.1629–1633 Descartes
Letters to Mersenne
1633–1634 Galileo
Discourses and Demonstrations on Two New Sciences
1638 John Wilkins
A Discovery of a World in the Moon
1638 Francis Godwin
The Man in the Moon
or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither by Domingo Gonsales
1638 Wilkins
Frontispiece
A Discourse Concerning A New World & Another Planet
1640 Descartes
Principles of Philosophy
1644 Giovanni Battista Riccioli
New Almagest
1651 Riccioli
Frontispiece
New Almagest
1651 Riccioli
Map of the Moon
from New Almagest
1651 Andreas Cellarius
Frontispiece
Celestial Atlas
or Macrocosmic Harmonies
1660 John Milton
Paradise Lost
1667 Johannes Hevelius
Celestial Machine
1673 Robert Hooke
An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth by Observations
1674 Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
1686 Edmond Halley
Opening Poem to Isaac Newton
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia)
1687 Isaac Newton
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia)
1687 Newton
Parabolic Path of a Comet from Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia)
1687 Newton
General Scholium from Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia)
Second Edition
1713 Newton
A Treatise of the System of the World
1728 Frontispiece
Andrew Motte’s English Translation of Book 1 of Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
1730 Voltaire
Frontispiece
Elements of the Philosophy of Newton
1738 James Ferguson
Astronomy
Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles
and Made Easy to Those Who Have Not Studied Mathematics
1756 Appendix: Other Translations and Works of Interest Index