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In this fascinating work, Jean Dietz Moss shows how the scientific revolution begun by Copernicus brought about another revolution as well—one in which rhetoric, previously used simply to explain scientific thought, became a tool for persuading a skeptical public of the superiority of the Copernican system.
Moss describes the nature of dialectical and rhetorical discourse in the period of the Copernican debate to shed new light on the argumentative strategies used by the participants. Against the background of Ptolemy's Almagest, she analyzes the gradual increase of rhetoric beginning with Copernicus's De Revolutionibus and Galileo's Siderius nuncius, through Galileo's debates with the Jesuits Scheiner and Grassi, to the most persuasive work of all, Galileo's Dialogue. The arguments of the Dominicans Bruno and Campanella, the testimony of Johannes Kepler, and the pleas of Scriptural exegetes and the speculations of John Wilkins furnish a counterpoint to the writings of Galileo, the centerpiece of this study.
The author places the controversy within its historical frame, creating a coherent narrative movement. She illuminates the reactions of key ecclesiastical and academic figures figures and the general public to the issues.
Blending history and rhetorical analysis, this first study to look at rhetoric as defined by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century participants is an original contribution to our understanding of the use of persuasion as an instrument of scientific debate.
Moss describes the nature of dialectical and rhetorical discourse in the period of the Copernican debate to shed new light on the argumentative strategies used by the participants. Against the background of Ptolemy's Almagest, she analyzes the gradual increase of rhetoric beginning with Copernicus's De Revolutionibus and Galileo's Siderius nuncius, through Galileo's debates with the Jesuits Scheiner and Grassi, to the most persuasive work of all, Galileo's Dialogue. The arguments of the Dominicans Bruno and Campanella, the testimony of Johannes Kepler, and the pleas of Scriptural exegetes and the speculations of John Wilkins furnish a counterpoint to the writings of Galileo, the centerpiece of this study.
The author places the controversy within its historical frame, creating a coherent narrative movement. She illuminates the reactions of key ecclesiastical and academic figures figures and the general public to the issues.
Blending history and rhetorical analysis, this first study to look at rhetoric as defined by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century participants is an original contribution to our understanding of the use of persuasion as an instrument of scientific debate.
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When Copernicus introduced his new cosmology to the world in De revolutionibus, he knew that he would have a difficult task persuading people to give up a world picture that had served for more than a millennium. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dialectical topos, comets arc, primary supposition, rhetorical revolution, dialectical proofs, heavens arc, mixed science, necessary demonstrations, dialectical arguments, negative rhetoric, probable arguments, logical methodology, straight motion, probable reasoning Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Grand Duchess, Collegio Romano, New York, Holy Office, Stillman Drake, Edward Rosen, Grand Duke, Middle Ages, Church Fathers, University of Chicago Press, Giordano Bruno, University of California Press, Cardinal Bellarmine, Holy Spirit, Galileo Galilei, Harvard University Press, Johannes Kepler, Pope Paul, Princeton University Press, University of Pisa, Council of Trent, Galileo's Dialogue, Sacred Congregation, Tvcho Brahe, Aristotle's Rhetoric New!
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When Copernicus introduced his new cosmology to the world in De revolutionibus, he knew that he would have a difficult task persuading people to give up a world picture that had served for more than a millennium. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dialectical topos, comets arc, primary supposition, rhetorical revolution, dialectical proofs, heavens arc, mixed science, necessary demonstrations, dialectical arguments, negative rhetoric, probable arguments, logical methodology, straight motion, probable reasoning Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Grand Duchess, Collegio Romano, New York, Holy Office, Stillman Drake, Edward Rosen, Grand Duke, Middle Ages, Church Fathers, University of Chicago Press, Giordano Bruno, University of California Press, Cardinal Bellarmine, Holy Spirit, Galileo Galilei, Harvard University Press, Johannes Kepler, Pope Paul, Princeton University Press, University of Pisa, Council of Trent, Galileo's Dialogue, Sacred Congregation, Tvcho Brahe, Aristotle's Rhetoric New!
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- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Modern Library Science) by Galileo on 8 pages
- The Ash Wednesday Supper (RSART: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series) by Giordano Bruno on 6 pages
- Defense of Galileo (History , Philosophy & Sociology of Science) by Thomas Campanella on 5 pages
- Two new sciences, including centers of gravity & force of percussion by Galileo Galilei on 4 pages
- Three Copernican Treatises by Edward Rosen on 4 pages
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- Painting the Heavens by Eileen Reeves in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Scientific Theology: Nature by Alister E. McGrath on page 26, and page 69
- The Composition of Kepler's Astronomia nova. by James R. Voelkel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- New Science, New World by Denise Albanese in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome by Ingrid D. Rowland in Back Matter
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