Moss, Jean Dietz - Novelties in the Heavens: Rhetoric and Science in the Copernican Controversy

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1993). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiv,353 pp. Minor rubbing. Slight binding corner bump. VG. ¶ Contents: The Expansion of Rhetoric into Science; The Celestial Revolution:Copernicus's Revolutionary Thesis; Evidence from the Heavens: Galileo & Kepler; The Significance of the Sunspot Quarrel; The Hermeneutical Crisis: Interpreting Scripture; Dominicans on the Side of Galileo; Galileo's Appeal to the Church; The Triumph of Rhetoric: The Delicate Balance: Galileo versus Grassi; The Final Salvo: Galileo's 'Dialogue'; Galileo Interpereted for Englishmen; Postscript: Dialectic & Rhetoric in Modern Science.

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