The genesis of the Copernican world
By: Hans Blumenberg ; translated by Robert M. Wallace.
Series: Studies in contemporary German social thought
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 772
Subjects: Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.; Astronomy -- History.; Europe -- History -- 1492-
Description: This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity. It provides an important corrective to the view of science as an autonomous enterprise and presents a new account of the history of interpretations of the significance of the heavens for man.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Translation of: Die Genesis der kopernikanischen Welt.