... and engagement among students of the heavens at Lutheran Wittenberg. The question was no longer merely about whether prognostication of natural events could be accommodated to a Bible-governed narrative, but rather it was about what relevance the Bible had for conflicting hypotheses of celestial order...

... Copernicus's work by stressing the separation between the mathematical and the physical parts of astronomy, Tolosani brought out the dependency of astronomy on the higher disciplines of physics and theology for the truth of its conclusions. This chapter deals with foreknowledge, skepticism, and celestial order...

...At the end of the 1580s, Nicolaus Copernicus's theory was one alternative amid a proliferating field of representations of celestial order. Copernicus's proponents were distributed among different networks—and also largely separated by them. Yet the Wittenberg interpretation had made certain parts...

... Cosmographicum: Helisaeus Roeslin, Tycho Brahe, and Nicolaus Raimarus Ursus. All had a publicly vested interest in their own representations of celestial order. Three others were established professors of mathematics whose convictions were held privately and without any effort at public advocacy: Georg...