Astrology in the crossfire: the stormy debate after the comet of 1577.
The new star of 1572 and the comet of 1577 had a major impact on the ways in which astronomical research developed in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Behind this gradual but significant change there was an extended epistemological reform which placed increasing emphasis on reason...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Science Vol. 79; no. 2; pp. 137 - 164 |
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Apr2022
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