Wolfgang Neuber

The Making of Copernicus: Early Modern Transformations of a Scientist and His Science Wolfgang Neuber

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; The articles in this volume examine how some of the Copernicus myths came about and if they could hold their ground. They investigate methodological, institutional, textual, and visual transformations of the Copernican doctrine and the topical, rhetorical, and literary transformations of the historical person of Copernicus respectively.; Mostly in English;chapter 7 in German. Biographical Note: Thomas Rahn gained his doctorate at the Philipps-Universitat Marburg (2001) and teaches German Literature at the Freie Universitat Berlin. He has published books and articles on Early Modern theatre and court culture, rhetoric and the typographic dimensions of texts. Wolfgang Neuber has been Full Professor of German Philology/Early Modern German and Neo-Latin Literature in the European Context and Head of the Forschungsstelle fur Mittlere Deutsche Literatur at Freie Universitat Berlin since 2000; he is currently on a five-year leave of absence to teach literature at New York University in Abu Dhabi. He has published extensively on early modern travel accounts (including "Fremde Welt im europaischen Horizont," 1991) and is currently preparing a book on early modern European family books. Claus Zittel teaches German literature and philosophy at the Universities of Stuttgart, Frankfurt am Main, and Olsztyn (Poland), and is deputy director of the Stuttgart Research Centre for Text Studies. He has published monographs, editions and many articles on Early Modern Philosophy and Literature and Philosophy, including "The Artist as Reader" (Brill 2013)."Table of Contents: Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: The Making of Copernicus WOLFGANG NEUBER, THOMAS RAHN, CLAUS ZITTEL PART ONE THE COPERNICAN TURN: METHODOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND REJECTIONS The Decline of Medieval Disputation Culture and the Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory STEFAN KIRSCHNER, ANDREAS KUHNE The Silence of the Wolves, Or, Why it Took the Holy Inquisition Seventy-Three Years to Ban Copernicanism GEREON WOLTERS A Natural History of the Heavens: Francis Bacon s Anti-Copernicanism DANA JALOBEANU Hume s Copernican Turn TAMAS DEMETER PART TWO NEW ASTRONOMY: TEXTUAL AND GRAPHIC TRANSFORMATIONS Arguing for One s World. Copernicus s Theories and Their Reception in Jean Bodins Theatrum JONATHAN SCHUZ Writing after Copernicus. Epistemology and Poetics in Giordano Bruno s Ash Wednesday Supper STEFFEN SCHNEIDER Die Erde als Mond. Kopernikanische Wenden in Raumreiserzahlungen des 17. Jahrhunderts (Kepler, Godwin, Cyrano de Bergerac) THOMAS RAHN Decentralisation of the Sun as Beginning of Modernity. The Transition from Copernicanism to the Plurality of Worlds in French Engravings LUCIA AYALA PART THREE NEW ASTRONOMERS: BIOGRAPHICAL TRANSFORMATIONS Timid Mathematicians vs. Daring Explorers of the Infinite Cosmos: Giordano Bruno, Literary Self-Fashioning and De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. SERGIUS KODERA Copernicus Found a Treasure the True Value of Which He Did Not Know at All . The Life of Copernicus by Pierre Gassendi CLAUS ZITTEL Hero of the Bourgeois World. Copernicus and His Afterlife in German Literature WOLFGANG NEUBER Max Brod: Tycho Brahes Weg zu Gott JORG JUNGMAYR Index Nominum"Publisher Marketing: The articles in this volume examine how some of the Copernicus myths came about and if they could hold their ground. They investigate methodological, institutional, textual, and visual transformations of the Copernican doctrine and the topical, rhetorical, and literary transformations of the historical person of Copernicus respectively. Review Citations: Choice 07/01/2015 (EAN 9789004281103, Hardcover)