Setting Aside All Authority
Autor Christopher M. Graneyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 apr 2015
Christopher M. Graney s-a impus în peisajul academic prin capacitatea de a reevalua momente de cotitură din istoria astronomiei, explorând în lucrări precum A Universe of Earths modul în care percepția noastră asupra locului Pământului în cosmos s-a transformat radical. În Setting Aside All Authority – Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo, autorul ne propune o perspectivă surprinzătoare: ideea că opozanții lui Galileo nu erau mânați doar de dogme religioase, ci de un aparat științific riguros pentru acea epocă. Apreciem modul în care Graney aduce la lumină figura lui Giovanni Battista Riccioli, un astronom jezuit care, la jumătatea secolului al XVII-lea, a formulat argumente empirice solide împotriva heliocentrismului. Ne-a atras atenția structura riguroasă a volumului, care integrează în premieră documente istorice esențiale, precum eseul lui Francesco Ingoli. Ca și Mathematical Disquisitions, lucrarea pune accent pe rigoarea matematică a „perdanților” istoriei, dar cu un stil propriu de analiză care îmbină fizica experimentală cu erudiția istorică. Spre deosebire de Defending Copernicus and Galileo de Maurice A. Finocchiaro, care se concentrează pe procesul și condamnarea lui Galileo, Graney mută reflectorul pe validitatea tehnică a modelelor alternative, demonstrând că, în 1651, geocentrismul încă deținea argumente telescopice puternice. Tonul este unul echilibrat, oferind o experiență de lectură densă, dar accesibilă, susținută de schițe și ilustrații care clarifică observațiile lui Riccioli. Este o invitație de a înțelege știința nu ca pe o victorie inevitabilă a „adevărului”, ci ca pe o dezbatere complexă în care și tabăra învinsă a jucat după regulile rațiunii.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780268029883
ISBN-10: 0268029881
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 34 halftones; 13 drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN-10: 0268029881
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 34 halftones; 13 drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: University of Notre Dame Press
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De ce să citești această carte
Această carte este esențială pentru pasionații de istoria ideilor și astronomie care doresc să depășească mitul conflictului simplist dintre religie și știință. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere nuanțată a modului în care se construiește consensul științific, descoperind că argumentele anti-copernicane erau, la vremea lor, bazate pe observații telescopice reale și experimente ingenioase. Este o lecție de onestitate intelectuală despre cum a fost gândit universul înainte de acceptarea deplină a heliocentrismului.
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Setting Aside All Authority is an important account and analysis of seventeenth-century scientific arguments against the Copernican system. Christopher M. Graney challenges the long-standing ideas that opponents of the heliocentric ideas of Copernicus and Galileo were primarily motivated by religion or devotion to an outdated intellectual tradition, and that they were in continual retreat in the face of telescopic discoveries.
Graney calls on newly translated works by anti-Copernican writers of the time to demonstrate that science, not religion, played an important, and arguably predominant, role in the opposition to the Copernican system. Anti-Copernicans, building on the work of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, were in fact able to build an increasingly strong scientific case against the heliocentric system at least through the middle of the seventeenth century, several decades after the advent of the telescope. The scientific case reached its apogee, Graney argues, in the 1651 New Almagest of the Italian Jesuit astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli, who used detailed telescopic observations of stars to construct a powerful scientific argument against Copernicus.
Setting Aside All Authority includes the first English translation of Monsignor Francesco Ingoli’s essay to Galileo (disputing the Copernican system on the eve of the Inquisition’s condemnation of it in 1616) and excerpts from Riccioli's reports regarding his experiments with falling bodies.
“Christopher M. Graney’s Setting Aside All Authority makes a fine contribution to the history of science and especially the history of astronomy. The case Graney presents for the rationality of denying Copernicanism, as late as the mid-seventeenth century, is cogent, and he presents a good deal of novel historical material that urges a reevaluation of a major figure—Riccioli. The book will interest not only historians but also philosophers of science, and scientists in the relevant specialties (astronomy, physics) together with their students at both the undergraduate and graduate level.” —Peter Barker, University of Oklahoma
"The most exciting history of science book so far this century, Graney’s brilliant portrait of Riccioli and his science—amiable but punchy, rigorous but accessible—ought to stimulate a complete revision of what we thought we knew about the Copernican Revolution. Rarely have scientific analysis, historical scholarship, and writerly flair come together with such force." —Dennis Danielson, author of Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution
"For students of the Copernican revolution, here is an unexpected contribution that will force the experts to revise their lecture notes. Christopher Graney (with translation assistance from Christina Graney) has almost single-handedly revised the traditional story about Jesuit Giambattista Riccioli’s list of pro and con arguments for the heliocentric cosmology. Big surprise: in 1651 the geocentric cosmology had science on its side." —Owen Gingerich, author of God's Planet
Graney calls on newly translated works by anti-Copernican writers of the time to demonstrate that science, not religion, played an important, and arguably predominant, role in the opposition to the Copernican system. Anti-Copernicans, building on the work of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, were in fact able to build an increasingly strong scientific case against the heliocentric system at least through the middle of the seventeenth century, several decades after the advent of the telescope. The scientific case reached its apogee, Graney argues, in the 1651 New Almagest of the Italian Jesuit astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli, who used detailed telescopic observations of stars to construct a powerful scientific argument against Copernicus.
Setting Aside All Authority includes the first English translation of Monsignor Francesco Ingoli’s essay to Galileo (disputing the Copernican system on the eve of the Inquisition’s condemnation of it in 1616) and excerpts from Riccioli's reports regarding his experiments with falling bodies.
“Christopher M. Graney’s Setting Aside All Authority makes a fine contribution to the history of science and especially the history of astronomy. The case Graney presents for the rationality of denying Copernicanism, as late as the mid-seventeenth century, is cogent, and he presents a good deal of novel historical material that urges a reevaluation of a major figure—Riccioli. The book will interest not only historians but also philosophers of science, and scientists in the relevant specialties (astronomy, physics) together with their students at both the undergraduate and graduate level.” —Peter Barker, University of Oklahoma
"The most exciting history of science book so far this century, Graney’s brilliant portrait of Riccioli and his science—amiable but punchy, rigorous but accessible—ought to stimulate a complete revision of what we thought we knew about the Copernican Revolution. Rarely have scientific analysis, historical scholarship, and writerly flair come together with such force." —Dennis Danielson, author of Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution
"For students of the Copernican revolution, here is an unexpected contribution that will force the experts to revise their lecture notes. Christopher Graney (with translation assistance from Christina Graney) has almost single-handedly revised the traditional story about Jesuit Giambattista Riccioli’s list of pro and con arguments for the heliocentric cosmology. Big surprise: in 1651 the geocentric cosmology had science on its side." —Owen Gingerich, author of God's Planet
Recenzii
“Christopher M. Graney’s Setting Aside All Authority makes a fine contribution to the history of science and especially the history of astronomy. The case Graney presents for the rationality of denying Copernicanism, as late as the mid seventeenth century, is cogent, and he presents a good deal of novel historical material that urges a reevaluation of a major figure—Riccioli. The book will interest not only historians but also philosophers of science, and scientists in the relevant specialties (astronomy, physics) together with their students at both the undergraduate and graduate level.” —Peter Barker, University of Oklahoma
"The most exciting history of science book so far this century, Graney’s brilliant portrait of Riccioli and his science—amiable but punchy, rigorous but accessible—ought to stimulate a complete revision of what we thought we knew about the Copernican Revolution. Rarely have scientific analysis, historical scholarship, and writerly flair come together with such force." —Dennis Danielson, author of Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution
"For students of the Copernican revolution, here is an unexpected contribution that will force the experts to revise their lecture notes. Christopher Graney (with translation assistance from Christina Graney) has almost single-handedly revised the traditional story about Jesuit Giambattista Riccioli’s list of pro and con arguments for the heliocentric cosmology. Big surprise: in 1651 the geocentric cosmology had science on its side." — Owen Gingerich, author of God's Planet
"In Setting Aside All Authority, Christopher Graney argues that though Riccioli was a Jesuit, he wasn't hampered by Catholicism. In the New Almagest, he summarized 126 arguments . . . but dismissed any depending solely on religious tenets. This left two substantive challenges to heliocentrism, the first concerned with motion, the second with annual parallax and its implications for star sizes. Riccioli's support for geocetrism stemmed from the Copernican inability to respond to these challenges. It was never a matter of 'religion vs. science' but rather 'science vs. science': existing empirical evidence pointed to geocentrism as the more rational system. . . . The arguments of both Riccioli and Graney are complicated and subtle. Even so, I had little difficulty following them, thanks to Graney's lucid prose and clear diagrams. If you think you know Riccioli, or if you want to know him better, pick up this book. Graney's re-reading of the New Almagest is absolutely convincing, and Setting Aside All Authority is sure to become the standard text on the 'science vs. science' debate between Riccioli and the supporters of heliocentrism." —Sky and Telescope
"A masterfully presented work of seminal scholarship, Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo is enhanced with the inclusion of illustrations and tables, two appendices, twenty-four pages of notes, an eight page list of works cited, and a fifteen page index. An essential and core addition to academic library Copernican Studies reference collections, for personal reading lists it should be noted that Setting Aside All Authority is also available in a Kindle edition." —Midwest Book Review
"Almost everyone has heard of Nicolaus Copernicus, whose 1543 text, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, espoused the heliocentric (Sun-centered) theory of the solar system. Far fewer are aware of Riccioli, who published in 1651 a massive tome of 1500 pages, the New Almagest, that examined the relative merits of the heliocentric versus the widely held geocentric (Earth-centered) theory for the solar system in 126 arguments from various sources. Geocentrism won with 49 arguments for and 77 against the Copernican theory. Graney (physics, Jefferson Community & Technical College) embarks on an exhaustive study of Riccioli's work in this book, even including a churchman's refutation of Galileo. This is not an easy read—portions of the book are in Latin—however, two appendixes and extensive chapter notes make this a valuable reference and research tool. Graney's account is particularly suited for historians and philosophers of science, or anyone interested in a new perspective on the Sun-Earth controversy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and faculty." —Choice
"Graney's book is a first-class addition to the literature on the history of astronomy in the seventeenth century and an absolute must read for anyone claiming serious interest in the topic." —The Renaissance Mathematicus blog
"[F]or the last decade Graney has been examining the arguments used in the case against heliocentrism . . . The result has been numerous scholarly and popular publications . . . Setting Aside All Authority is the crowning summary of all this activity . . . [a book] well worth reading by those who want a more nuanced understanding of the Copernican Revolution." —Southern Stars
“Christopher Graney relates this story of the testing of a profoundly important scientific theory in a uniquely engaging style. This accessible presentation of science and history makes this book ideal for undergraduates and recommended for academic libraries.” —Catholic Library World
"[F]or the last decade Graney has been examining the arguments used in the case against heliocentrism . . . The result has been numerous scholarly and popular publications . . . Setting Aside All Authority is the crowning summary of all this activity . . . [a book] well worth reading by those who want a more nuanced understanding of the Copernican Revolution." —Southern Stars
“Christopher Graney relates this story of the testing of a profoundly important scientific theory in a uniquely engaging style. This accessible presentation of science and history makes this book ideal for undergraduates and recommended for academic libraries.” —Catholic Library World
"Is there something to be gained by assessing the merits of the losing side of a long-settled scientific argument? Christopher Graney’s answer in Setting Aside All Authority is an unequivocal yes, and he takes one of the most celebrated cases of scientific advance—the victory of heliocentrism over geocentrism—to show us. The work contributes to an effort among historians of science to demonstrate how much more genuinely scientific the entire dispute was than is suggested in the conventional story of it as a titanic struggle between the scientifically rational and the religiously superstitious." —America
“…the focus of the book is on the analysis of the 126 arguments for and against the Earth’s motions, and in particular of the two that Riccioli considered decisive evidence against heliocentrism.” —American Historical Review
“Though Riccioli was one of the most important and widely-known astronomers in the Society of Jesus of the seventeenth century, he has received relatively little attention from historians of science. . . . Ultimately, he [Graney] has managed a rare feat: taking his own expertise and passion for physics and applying them to sources and contents rarely encountered in the college classroom.” —Journal of Jesuit Studies
“No one can accuse Christopher Graney of lacking ambition. [Although he] is a professor of physics rather than a historian, in one way [he] is far different from the stereotypical scientist-historians of yore: [he is willing to] take the losing side seriously.” —Sixteenth Century Journal
“…the focus of the book is on the analysis of the 126 arguments for and against the Earth’s motions, and in particular of the two that Riccioli considered decisive evidence against heliocentrism.” —American Historical Review
“Though Riccioli was one of the most important and widely-known astronomers in the Society of Jesus of the seventeenth century, he has received relatively little attention from historians of science. . . . Ultimately, he [Graney] has managed a rare feat: taking his own expertise and passion for physics and applying them to sources and contents rarely encountered in the college classroom.” —Journal of Jesuit Studies
“No one can accuse Christopher Graney of lacking ambition. [Although he] is a professor of physics rather than a historian, in one way [he] is far different from the stereotypical scientist-historians of yore: [he is willing to] take the losing side seriously.” —Sixteenth Century Journal
Notă biografică
Christopher M. Graney is professor of physics at Jefferson Community & Technical College.