Screen LibraryBearing the heavens：Tycho Brahe and the astronomical community of the late sixteenth century
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiv, 354 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780521838665 (alk. paper) 0521838665 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | P1 |
| CLC: | P1-095.34 |
| Call Number: | P1-095.34/M912 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-339) and indexes. 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. |