Kepler's \textit{Epitome of Copernican astronomy} in context

DOI10.1111/1600-0498.12356MaRDI QIDQ6604577zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Aviva Rothman

Publication date 12 September 2024

Published in Centaurus (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1111/1600-0498.12356

zbMATH Keywords

\textit{Epitome of Copernican astronomy}Copernican banheliocentrismThirty Years' War

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

Review text

Kepler's \textit{Epitome of Copernican astronomy} comprised three volumes, published in 1618, 1620, and 1621, respectively. The present article argues that Kepler consciously altered his target audience midstream, from a student readership for the first volume to an expert readership for the latter two. Rothman proposes that a significant factor behind this change was the 1619 placement of the first volume on the Index. He also presents the Thirty Years' War as a secondary influence on Kepler's reorientation of the \textit{Epitome}.

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