Wittich Connection : Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-Century Cosmology Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 78, Part 7)

Name: Wittich Connection
Brand: American Philosophical Society Press
SKU: 9780871697875
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by Owen Gingerich; Robert S. Westman

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Transactions of the American Philosophical Society

ISBN-10 0871697874

ISBN-13 9780871697875

Publisher American Philosophical Society Press

Imprint American Philosophical Society Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 1st, 1988

Print length 148 Pages

Product Classification: Astronomy, space & time Astronomy, space and time

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Contents: Introduction; (1) The Libraries of Tycho Brahe & of Paul Wittich: The Misleading Attribution of the Copernican Annotations; Master Paul Wittich; Tycho''s Attempts to Acquire Wittich''s Library; & The Prague Tychoniana; (2) Wittich''s Copernican Annotations: Reinhold''s Annotations & the Liege "De revolutionibus"; The Vatican Wittich Copy; The Prague & Wroclaw Wittich Copies; & Why Annotate Four Copes of "De revolutionibus"?; (3) Reconstructing the Universe: Tycho''s Early Transformations & Wittich''s Visit; A Theft in the Castle?: Thycho''s "Legal Brief" on the Ursus Affair, & Ursus'' Account & Kepler''s Interpretation; & Constructing Tycho''s Cosmology. Appendix: The Vatican Annotations; & Wittich''s Obituary in "Silesia Togata." Illus.

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