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Copernicus and the Aristotelian Tradition: Education, Reading, and Philosophy in Copernicus's Path to Heliocentrism
Author(s): André Goddu (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 15 Feb. 2010
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 576 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004181075
- ISBN-13: 9789004181076
Book Description
Taking into account the most important results of the scholarly literature since 1973 and the best Polish scholarship of the past century, this is the first comprehensive study of Copernicus’s achievement in English that examines Copernicus’s path to heliocentrism from the perspective of late medieval philosophy, the Renaissance recovery of ancient literature and science, and early-modern editions of books that Copernicus used. The principal goals are to explain his commitment to the existence of celestial spheres, and the logical foundations for his views about hypotheses. In doing so, the work elucidates the logical and philosophical background that contributed to his accomplishments, and explains the limitations of his achievement.
Medieval and Early Modern Science, 12
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Goddu manages to integrate a long tradition of approaching Copernicus from the history of ideas in a more recent ‘history-of-reading’ approach. […] For reasons that may ultimately be unexplainable, Nicholas Copernicus has never failed to stimulate the patience, critical self-awareness and erudite efforts of historians of science. André Goddu’s book is probably the finest example of this to date.’ Steven Vanden Broecke, Ghent University
British Journal for the History of Science, 2011, December, 587-588 pp.
British Journal for the History of Science, 2011, December, 587-588 pp.
About the Author
André Goddu, Ph.D. (1979) in History, University of California at Los Angeles, is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stonehill College. He has published a monograph and several articles on late medieval philosophy and early modern astronomy, including The Physics of William of Ockham (Brill, 1984).
