
Before Copernicus
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- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Note on Conventions
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE: THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPEAN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS
- 1: What Did It Mean to Live in the Long Fifteenth Century?
- 2: European Cross-Cultural Contexts before Copernicus
- PART TWO: THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL AND SCIENTIFIC CONTEXTS
- 3: The Status of Astronomy as a Science in Fifteenth-Century Cracow: Ibn al-Haytham, Peurbach, and Copernicus
- 4: Regiomontanus and Astronomical Controversy in the Background of Copernicus
- 5: Framing the Appearances in the Fifteenth Century: Alberti, Cusa, Regiomontanus, and Copernicus
- PART THREE: THE MULTICULTURAL ASTRONOMICAL BACKGROUND TO THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION
- 6: Fifteenth-Century Astronomy in the Islamic World
- 7: From Tun to Torun: The Twists and Turns of the Tusi-Couple
- 8: Jews as Scientific Intermediaries in the European Renaissance
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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