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CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN EARLY MODERN COSMOLOGY Archimedes NEWSTUDIESINTHEHISTORYANDPHILOSOPHYOF SCIENCEANDTECHNOLOGY VOLUME27 EDITOR JEDZ.BUCHWALD,DreyfussProfessorofHistory,CaliforniaInstitute ofTechnology,Pasadena,CA,USA. ASSOCIATEEDITORSFORMATHEMATICSANDPHYSICALSCIENCES JEREMYGRAY,TheFacultyofMathematicsandComputing, TheOpenUniversity,Buckinghamshire,UK. TILMANSAUER,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology ASSOCIATEEDITORSFORBIOLOGICALSCIENCES SHARONKINGSLAND,DepartmentofHistoryofScienceandTechnology, JohnsHopkinsUniversity,Baltimore,MD,USA. MANFREDLAUBICHLER,ArizonaStateUniversity ADVISORYBOARDFORMATHEMATICS,PHYSICALSCIENCESANDTECHNOLOGY HENKBOS,UniversityofUtrecht MORDECHAIFEINGOLD,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology ALLAND.FRANKLIN,UniversityofColoradoatBoulder KOSTASGAVROGLU,NationalTechnicalUniversityofAthens PAULHOYNINGEN-HUENE,LeibnizUniversityinHannover TREVORLEVERE,UniversityofToronto JESPERLÜTZEN,CopenhagenUniversity WILLIAMNEWMAN,IndianUniversity,Bloomington LAWRENCEPRINCIPE,TheJohnsHopkinsUniversity JÜRGENRENN,Max-Planck-InstitutfürWissenschaftsgeschichte ALEXROLAND,DukeUniversity ALANSHAPIRO,UniversityofMinnesota NOELSWERDLOW,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology,USA ADVISORYBOARDFORBIOLOGY MICHAELDIETRICH,DartmouthCollege,USA MICHELMORANGE,CentreCavaillès,EcoleNormaleSupérieure,Paris HANS-JÖRGRHEINBERGER,MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience,Berlin NANCYSIRAISI,HunterCollegeoftheCityUniversityofNewYork Archimedeshasthreefundamentalgoals;tofurthertheintegrationofthehistoriesofscienceandtechnology withoneanother:toinvestigatethetechnical,socialandpracticalhistoriesofspecificdevelopmentsinscience andtechnology;andfinally,wherepossibleanddesirable,tobringthehistoriesofscienceandtechnologyinto closercontactwiththephilosophyofscience.Totheseends,eachvolumewillhaveitsownthemeandtitleand willbeplannedbyoneormoremembersoftheAdvisoryBoardinconsultationwiththeeditor.Althoughthe volumeshavespecificthemes,theseriesitselfwillnotbelimitedtooneoreventoafewparticularareas.Its subjectsincludeanyofthesciences,rangingfrombiologythroughphysics,allaspectsoftechnology,broadly construed,aswellashistorically-engagedphilosophyofscienceortechnology.Takenasawhole,Archimedes willbeofinteresttohistorians,philosophers,andscientists,aswellastothoseinbusinessandindustrywho seektounderstandhowscienceandindustryhavecometobesostronglylinked. Forfurthervolumes: http://www.springer.com/series/5644 Patrick J. Boner Editor Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology 123 Editor PatrickJ.Boner DepartmentoftheHistoryofScience andTechnology JohnsHopkinsUniversity 3400NorthCharlesStreet 21218Baltimore USA [email protected] ISSN1385-0180 ISBN978-94-007-0036-9 e-ISBN978-94-007-0037-6 DOI10.1007/978-94-007-0037-6 SpringerDordrechtHeidelbergLondonNewYork ©SpringerScience+BusinessMediaB.V.2011 Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorby anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recordingorotherwise,withoutwritten permissionfromthePublisher,withtheexceptionofanymaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurpose ofbeingenteredandexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Acknowledgements Many of the papers in this volume were originally presented at the conference “Cosmological Continuity and the Conception of Modern Science,” held at the JohnsHopkinsUniversityon15–16May2009.Theconferencecommemoratedthe quatercentenary of the publication of Johannes Kepler’s New Astronomy, a central celebratory point in the International Year of Astronomy. The Department of the HistoryofScienceandTechnologyatJohnsHopkinsUniversitysponsoredthecon- ference,withadditionalfundingfromtheEvolution,Cognition,andCultureProject, alsoatJohnsHopkinsUniversity.Theeditoracknowledgessupportfromapostdoc- toralfellowshipwiththeNationalScienceFoundation,“TheSupernovaof1604asa SourceofScientificDebate”(no.0749138).Additionalsupportwasmadepossible by the project “Cosmology, Theology, and Anthropology in the First Phase of the Scientific Revolution (1543–1633)” (FFIZ009-07156), sponsored by the Spanish MinistryofScienceandInnovation. Eachofthefollowingpapershasbeenrevisedinthelightofdiscussionsduring andaftertheconference.TheeditorisespeciallygratefultoStevenVandenBroecke (University of Ghent) for his many insightful comments on the papers. In addi- tion to those that appear in this volume, other papers were presented by William P. Blair (Johns Hopkins University), Daniel A. Di Liscia (University of Munich), andBruceStephenson(AdlerPlanetarium).TheeditorthanksWilliam,Daniel,and Bruce for their fine efforts, along with the other participants for their comments andquestions.RobertA.Hatch(UniversityofFlorida),MariaM.Portuondo(Johns HopkinsUniversity),andLawrenceM.Principe(JohnsHopkinsUniversity)mod- eratedsessionsandmademanyhelpfulsuggestionsfortheeditorialpreparationof this volume. Thanks are also due to the editors of Archimedes for their interest in bringingthisvolumeintoprint. v Contents 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 PatrickJ.Boner 2 TheRealityofPeurbach’sOrbs:CosmologicalContinuity inFifteenthandSixteenthCenturyAstronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 PeterBarker 3 Continuity and Change in Cosmological Ideas in Spain Between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: TheImpactofCelestialNovelties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 VíctorNavarroBrotóns 4 CorneliusGemmaandtheNewStarof1572 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 DarioTessicini 5 JohannesKeplerandDavidFabricius:TheirDiscussion ontheNovaof1604 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 MiguelA.Granada 6 Kepler’sCopernicanCampaignandtheNewStarof1604 . . . . . . 93 PatrickJ.Boner 7 FromCosmostoConfession:KeplerandtheConnection BetweenAstronomicalandReligiousTruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 AvivaRothman 8 Johannes Phocylides Holwarda and the Interpretation ofNewStarsintheDutchRepublic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 RienkVermij 9 DiscoveringMiraCeti:CelestialChangeandCosmicContinuity . . 153 RobertAlanHatch Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 vii Contributors PeterBarkerUniversityofOklahoma,Norman,OK,USA,[email protected] PatrickJ.BonerJohnsHopkinsUniversity,Baltimore,MD,USA, [email protected] MiguelA.GranadaUniversityofBarcelona,Barcelona,Spain,[email protected] RobertAlanHatchUniversityofFlorida,Gainesville,FL,USA,ufhatch@ufl.edu VíctorNavarroBrotónsUniversityofValencia,Valencia,Spain, [email protected] AvivaRothmanPrincetonUniversity,Princeton,NJ,USA, [email protected] DarioTessiciniDurhamUniversity,Durham,UK,[email protected] RienkVermijUniversityofOklahoma,Norman,OK,USA,[email protected] ix
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