Neuber W., Rahn T., Zittel C. (eds.) The Making of Copernicus: Early Modern Transformations of a Scientist and his Science

Brill, 2015. - 331 p.
The contributors to Making of Copernicus examine by the study of particular examples how some of the myths surrounding Copernicus came about and whether they have held their validity or have vanished altogether. Are there links between a real or postulated transformation of images of the world and the application of metaphors in science, especially the metaphor of scientific revolution? What were the interactions and conflations in science and literature that led to Copernicus being set on a pedestal or being cast down from it, and how did they come about? Is there on the other hand any fallout from reconstructions and hagiographies in the history of science on the literary image of Copernicus presented by novelists down into the 20th century? Papers deal with the history of the reception of Copernicus not by affirming or rejecting him and his teachings, but as rather as a process of transformation. They thus examine transformations of his doctrine: methodological, institutional, textual and visual - and transformations of the historical personage of Copernicus: topical, rhetorical, and literary.Introduction: The Making of Copernicus (by Wolfgang Neuber, Thomas Rahn and Claus Zittel).
The Copernican Turn: Methodological Transformations and Rejections.
The Decline of Medieval Disputation Culture and the ‘Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory’ (by Stefan Kirschner and Andreas Kuehne).
The Silence of the Wolves, Or, Why It Took the Holy Inquisition Seventy-Three Years to Ban Copernicanism (by Gereon Wolters).
A Natural History of the Heavens: Francis Bacon’s Anti-Copernicanism (by Dana Jalobeanu).
Hume’s Copernican Turn (by Tamas Demeter).
New Astronomy: Textual and Graphic Transformations.
Arguing for One’s World. Copernicus’s Theories and Their Reception in Jean Bodin’s Theatrum (by Jonathan Schuez).
Writing after Copernicus: Epistemology and Poetics in Giordano Bruno’s Ash Wednesday Supper (by Steffen Schneider).
Die Erde als Mond. Kopernikanische Wenden in Raumreiseerzaehlungen des 17 Jahrhunderts (Kepler, Godwin, Cyrano de Bergerac) (by Thomas Rahn).
Cosmology after Copernicus: Decentralisation of the Sun and the Plurality of Worlds in French Engravings (by Lucia Ayala).
New Astronomers: Biographical Transformations.
Timid Mathematicians vs. Daring Explorers of the Infinite Cosmos: Giordano Bruno, Literary Self-Fashioning and De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (by Sergius Kodera).
Copernicus Found a Treasure the True Value of Which He Did Not Know at All. The Life of Copernicus by Pierre Gassendi (by Claus Zittel).
Hero of the Bourgeois World. Copernicus and His Afterlife in German Literature (by Wolfgang Neuber).
Max Brod: Tycho Brahes Weg zu Gott (by Jorg Jungmayr).