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Bearing the heavens : Tycho Brahe and the astronomical community of the late sixteenth century
- Title
- Bearing the heavens : Tycho Brahe and the astronomical community of the late sixteenth century / Adam Mosley.
- Author
- Mosley, Adam, 1974-
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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- Description
- xiv, 354 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-339) and indexes.
- Contents
- 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 good-will ; 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 ; (i) To please all men of learning and good will? ; (ii) A dedicated gift ...? ; (iii) ... or an astronomical text? ; Astronomical readers ; (i) Textual astronomy ; (ii) The astronomical library ; (iii) 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 --Appendix: Known and presumed owners of Tycho's works prior to 1602.
- Call Number
- JSE 07-518
- ISBN
- 9780521838665
- 0521838665
- 9781107403659
- 1107403650
- LCCN
- 2007000713
- OCLC
- 78070992
- Author
- Mosley, Adam, 1974-
- Title
- Bearing the heavens : Tycho Brahe and the astronomical community of the late sixteenth century / Adam Mosley.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-339) and indexes.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1500-1599
- Research Call Number
- JSE 07-518