Bearing the Heavens Tycho Brahe and the Astronomical Community of the Late Sixteenth Century

Name: Bearing the Heavens Tycho Brahe and the Astronomical Community of the Late Sixteenth Century
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ISBN: 9780521838665

ISBN-10: 0521838665

ISBN-13: 9780521838665

Edition: 2007

Authors: Adam Mosley

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A ground-breaking study of the astronomical culture of sixteenth-century Europe. It examines, in particular, the ways in which members of the nascent international astronomical community shared information, attracted patronage and respect for their work, and conducted their disputes. Particular attention is paid to the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), known for his observatory Uraniborg on the island of Hven, his operation of a printing press, and his development of a third world-system to rival those of Ptolemy and Copernicus. Adam Mosley examines the ways in which Tycho interacted with a Europe-wide network of scholars, looking not only at how he constructed his reputation…

Book details

List price: $116.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/29/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 370
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Adam Mosley is Lecturer in History at the University of Wales Swansea.



List of illustrations


Acknowledgements


List of abbreviations



Bearing the heavens



Coelifer: Atlas as bearer of the heavens



Astronomy and kingship: disciplinary history and princely practice



Tycho Brahe, Prince of Astronomers



Tycho Brahe's astronomical letters



Tycho Brahe and the Republic of Letters



Epistolary origins: the beginning of the Hven-Kassel exchanges



Weddings, merchants, and other hindrances to goodwill



Epistolary calibration: instruments, refraction and cosmology at Uraniborg and Kassel



Intellectual property, credit, and the exchange of gifts



Conclusion



Books and the heavens



From manuscript to print



To please all men of learning and goodwill?



A dedicated gift...?



...or an astronomical text?



Astronomical readers



Textual astronomy



The astronomical library



Readings hostile and authorial



A melancholy conclusion



Instruments



Globi Tychonici



Printing and privilege: books, globes, and gifts



Moving heaven and earth: models of celestial motion



Conclusion



Concluding remarks



Known and presumed owners of Tycho's works prior to 1602


References


General index


Index of correspondence