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Michael Maestlin Michael Maestlin
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Pastor, Academic, Mathematicus, Copernican Pastor, Academic, Mathematicus, Copernican
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Maestlin's Hesitations about Astrology Maestlin's Hesitations about Astrology
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The Practice of Theorizing Maestlin's Glosses on Copernicus The Practice of Theorizing Maestlin's Glosses on Copernicus
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Thomas Digges Thomas Digges
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Gentleman, Mathematical Practitioner, Platonist, Copernican Gentleman, Mathematical Practitioner, Platonist, Copernican
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Digges on Copernicus in Wings or Ladders Digges on Copernicus in Wings or Ladders
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(Re)Classifying the Star (Re)Classifying the Star
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The Mathematicians' Court The Mathematicians' Court
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Reorganizing Copernicus Reorganizing Copernicus
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Thomas Digges's Infinite Universe “Augmentation” in Leonard Digges's Prognostication Euerlastinge Thomas Digges's Infinite Universe “Augmentation” in Leonard Digges's Prognostication Euerlastinge
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The Plummet Passage The Plummet Passage
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Conclusion Conclusion
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9 The Second-Generation Copernicans: Maestlin and Digges
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Published:July 2011
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Abstract
The generation informed by the Wittenberg consensus, born largely in the 1540s, was the cohort that, by the 1570s—and most dramatically in the 1580s—began actively to engage the full text of De Revolutionibus. Thomas Kuhn cautioned that the effects of Nicolaus Copernicus's work were “revolution-making” and that earlier writers, unconcerned with revolution as the governing trope, simply designated as “gradual.” The second generation after Copernicus was an activist generation that no longer read De Revolutionibus solely as a tool of astrological prognostication but now took the text seriously as a resource for theorizing about planetary order and planetary models. Although their divergences were not extreme, Michael Maestlin and Thomas Digges were entirely typical of differences among practitioners who regarded themselves as adherents of Copernicus's central ordering claims. This chapter discusses Maestlin's hesitations about astrology and his glosses on Copernicus, as well as Digges's infinite universe “augmentation” in Leonard Digges's prognostication.
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