Christoph Rothmann's Discourse on the comet of 1585 : an edition and translation with accompanying essays /
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Christoph Rothmann's Discourse on the comet of 1585 : |b an edition and translation with accompanying essays / |c by Miguel A. Granada, Adam Mosley, Nicholas Jardine. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Discourse on the comet of 1585 |
| 264 | 1 | |a Leiden ; |a Boston : |b Brill, |c [2014] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2014 | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (xx, 376 pages) : |b illustrations. | ||
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| 490 | 1 | |a History of science and medicine library ; |v volume 44 | |
| 490 | 1 | |a Medieval and early modern science, |x 1567-8393 ; |v volume 22 | |
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. |b Perth, W.A. |n Available via World Wide Web. | ||
| 546 | |a In English and Latin. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |a Machine generated contents note: |g 1. |t Introduction / |r Miguel A. Granada -- |g 1. |t Christoph Rothmann and Astronomy in Wittenberg -- |g 2. |t Astronomy in Kassel: Landgrave Wilhelm IV and His Programme of Stellar Astronomy -- |g 3. |t Comet of 1985 and the Dialexis cometae -- |g 4. |t Phases of Composition of the Dialexis cometae -- |g 5. |t Rothmann's Cosmological Innovations in the Dialexis cometae -- |g 6. |t Status of Astronomical Hypotheses -- |g 7. |t Title of the Work -- |g 2. |t Dialexis Cometae qui Anno Christi M.D.LXXXV. mensibus Octobri et Novembri apparuit Latin text prepared / |r Miguel A. Granada -- |t Discourse on the Comet Which Appeared in the Months of October and November of 1585 -- |g ch. 1 |t On the Observations of This Comet -- |g ch. 2 |t Concerning the Motion of This Comet in Longitude and Latitude -- |g ch. 3 |t Whether This Comet Had Parallax -- |g ch. 4 |t In Which Sphere This Comet Was -- |g ch. 5 |t Since It Is Commonly Believed That the Spheres of the Planets Are Solid Bodies, How Could the Comet Have Progressed in Them? And What Is to Be Thought on This Question? -- |g ch. 6 |t Refutation of Some Opinions Concerning Comets; Namely, That They Are Neither Species Appearing without Matter, Nor Perpetual Bodies Together with the Rest of the Stars, Nor Vapours Ignited in the Air -- |g ch. 7 |t Opinion of the Author about the Matter and Essence of Comets -- |g ch. 8 |t Uses of the Examination of Comets -- |g ch. 9 |t That That Matter Flowing around the Planets Differs Not at All from Pure Sublunar Air, and Where, Moreover, the Contrary Arguments Are Refuted -- |t Description of the Comet Which Shone in the Year 1596 in the Month of July, but Set Out in a Fuller Form from the Papers of the Same Rothmann -- |g 3. |t Appendices: Related Texts and Translations / |r Adam Mosley -- |g 1. |t Letters of Christoph Rothmann to Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel, 1585--1586 -- |g 2. |t Letter of Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel to Heinrich Rantzau, 20 October 1585 -- |g 3. |t Letter of Wilhelm IV to Christoph Rothmann of 18 November 1585, Authorising the Drafting of a scriptum on the Comet -- |g 4. |t Elias Olsen Morsing's Account of the Comet of 1585 -- |g 4. |t How to Present a Copernican Comet: The Form and Tactics of Christoph Rothmann's Dialexis on the Comet of 1585 / |r Nicholas Jardine -- |g 1. |t Introduction -- |g 2. |t Disciplines: Mathematics vs. Philosophy -- |g 3. |t Disciplines: Theology -- |g 4. |t Genres: Dialexis, ̀Critical Doxography', Historia, Observationes -- |g 5. |t Persuasive Tactics -- |g 6. |t Comets as Boundary Objects -- |g 5. |t History and Historiography of Early Modern Comets / |r Adam Mosley -- |g 1. |t 1577 and All That: What Every Historian of Astronomy Knows -- |g 2. |t Historia: Comets, Astronomy, and Historical Astrology -- |g 3. |t 1577 and All That Revisited -- |g 6. |t Brief Note on Cometary Parallax / |r Adam Mosley -- |g 1. |t Tycho, Regiomontanus, and the Problems of Parallax -- |g 2. |t Rothmann and the Parallax of the Comet of 1585 -- |g 3. |t Conclusion. |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-366) and index. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Comets |y 1585 |v Early works to 1800. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Astronomy, Medieval |v Early works to 1800. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Cosmology, Medieval |v Early works to 1800. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Granada, Miguel Angel, |d 1949- | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Mosley, Adam, |d 1974- |e translator. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Jardine, Nicholas, |e translator. | |
| 700 | 1 | 2 | |a Rothmann, Christoph, |d active 16th century. |t Dialexis cometae. |
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