TY - BOOK ID - 23411078 TI - Copernicus and the Aristotelian tradition : education, reading, and philosophy in Copernicus's path to heliocentrism PY - 2010 VL - 15 SN - 9789004181076 9004181075 9786612952166 9004183620 1282952161 9789004183629 9781282952164 6612952164 PB - Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - 520.92 KW - Sciences Astronomy History Persons KW - Astronomy KW - Cosmology KW - Philosophy, Medieval KW - Science KW - Natural science KW - Science of science KW - Sciences KW - Medieval philosophy KW - Scholasticism KW - Deism KW - Metaphysics KW - Physical sciences KW - Space sciences KW - History KW - Copernicus, Nicolaus, KW - Copernicus, Nicolaus KW - Copernic, Nicolas KW - Kopernik, Mikołaj KW - Knowledge and learning. KW - Philosophy, Medieval. KW - Natural sciences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:23411078 AB - Taking into account the most important results of the scholarly literature since 1973 and the best Polish scholarship of the past century, this is the first comprehensive study of Copernicus's achievement in English that examines Copernicus's path to heliocentrism from the perspective of late medieval philosophy, the Renaissance recovery of ancient literature and science, and early-modern editions of books that Copernicus used. The principal goals are to explain his commitment to the existence of celestial spheres, and the logical foundations for his views about hypotheses. In doing so, the work elucidates the logical and philosophical background that contributed to his accomplishments, and explains the limitations of his achievement. Medieval and Early Modern Science , 12 ER -