Jean Dietz Moss

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Novelties in the Heavens: Rhetoric and Science in the Copernican ControversyHardcover, 15 March 1993

Novelties in the Heavens: Rhetoric and Science in the Copernican Controversy
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Print Length
368 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Date Published
15 Mar 1993
ISBN-10
0226542343
ISBN-13
9780226542348

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Jean Dietz Moss
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
15 March 1993
Dimensions:
23.65 x 15.98 x 2.69 cm
ISBN-10:
0226542343
ISBN-13:
9780226542348
Language:
English
Location:
Chicago, IL
Pages:
368
Weight:
725.75 gm

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