Algorismus Heft 59:

Contents / Inhalt

Preface / Vorwort ..................................................................... IX

Section I: Approaches to astronomy in early modern times .... 1

Volker Bialas (Munich): Zum Stellenwert der Astronomie

im frühneuzeitlichen globus intellectualis ............................... 3

Sonja Brentjes (London): Astronomy a temptation? On

early modern encounters across the Mediterranean Sea ........... 15

Armin Gerl (Regensburg): Fridericus Amann - Astronom, Kosmograph und Mathematiker der frühen Neuzeit: Seine astronomischen Arbeiten ........................................................... 47

Alena Hadravová and Petr Hadrava (Prague): The Prague astronomical school in the 15^th century ..................................... 63

Wolf gang Kaunzner (Regensburg): Über Schriften Georgs

von Peuerbach mit einem mathematischen Hintergrund .......... 73

Eberhard Knobloch (Berlin): Pedro Nuñes's contributions

to the astronomy of early modern times .................................... 83

Paul Kunitzsch (Munich): Late traces of Arabic influence

in European astronomy (17^th-18^thcenturies) ............................. 97

Mieczyslaw Markowski (Kraków): Astronomie als Leitwissenschaft an der Krakauer Universität in der vorkopernicanischen Zeit ......................................................... 103

Michael Segre (Chieti): Astronomy, astrology, and

historiography .......................................................................... 115

Section II: Copernican astronomy and its early reception .... 125

Dennis Danielson (Vancouver, BC): Rheticus and the birth

of trigonometry ......................................................................... 127

Karl Galle (Washington, DC): 16^th-century astronomy and its

professional contexts: the case of Copernicus and calendar

reform ....................................................................................... 143

Owen Gingerich (Cambridge, MA): The invisible

astronomical network, 1543-1600 ............................................ 163

Miguel A. Granada (Barcelona): Aristotle, Copernicus, Rheticus

and Kepler on centrality and the principle of movement ......... 175

Harald Gropp (Heidelberg): New planets in the solar system: Uranus, Ceres and so on ........................................................... 195

Jesse Kraai (Santa Fe, NM): The four Copernican circles and Rheticus' heliocentric providence ............................................ 209

Richard Kremer (Dartmouth, NH): Copernicus among the astrologers: Apreliminary study .............................................. 225

Andreas Kühne (Munich): The reception of Copernicus as reflected in biographies ............................................................ 253

Richard Lorch (Munich): Copernicus'trigonometry ............... 269

Karl Röttel (Ingolstadt): Apian - Scheiner - Cysat: Beiträge Ingolstädter Astronomen im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert .............. 275

Section III: The significance of astronomy for the general development of science ........................................................... 295

William H. Donahue (Santa Fe, NM): Astronomy in the service

of cosmology? Kepler' s arguments for a finite universe ......... 297

Robert A. Hatch (Gainesville, FL): Nature's profoundest secret: First inklings, second guesses, second thoughts ...................... 307

Andreas Verdun (Bern): Methods of modern exact sciences in

the astronomical works ofLeonhard Euler ................................. 333

Section IV: The instrumentation of early modern

astronomy ................................................................................ 353

Sven Dupré (Gent): Optica est ars bene videndi: From

Gemma's radius to Galileo's telescope .................................... 355

Fernand Hallyn (Gent): Gemma Frisius, Mathematical

Practitioner and Humanist ........................................................ 369

Uta Lindgren (Bayreuth): Astronomische Vorbilder für geodätische Instrumente im 16. Jahrhundert ............................ 385

Salvo de Meis (Milan): From Regiomontanus to Kepler:

Accuracy and applications of astronomical ephemerides .......... 399

Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente (Barcelona): The nova stella and its

observers ................................................................................... 423

Yaakov Zik (Haifa): Mathematical instruments: The techno-

logical infrastructure of seventeenth-century science .............. 439

Ludolf von Mackensen (Kassel): Die erste fest eingerichtete Sternwarte der Neuzeit in Kassel und ihre Instrumente .......... 465

List of Authors / Autorenverzeichnis ....................................... 493


	Algorismus Heft 59: Contents / Inhalt Preface / Vorwort ..................................................................... IX Section I: Approaches to astronomy in early modern times .... 1 Volker Bialas (Munich): Zum Stellenwert der Astronomie im frühneuzeitlichen globus intellectualis ............................... 3 Sonja Brentjes (London): Astronomy a temptation? On early modern encounters across the Mediterranean Sea ........... 15 Armin Gerl (Regensburg): Fridericus Amann - Astronom, Kosmograph und Mathematiker der frühen Neuzeit: Seine astronomischen Arbeiten ........................................................... 47 Alena Hadravová and Petr Hadrava (Prague): The Prague astronomical school in the 15^th century ..................................... 63 Wolf gang Kaunzner (Regensburg): Über Schriften Georgs von Peuerbach mit einem mathematischen Hintergrund .......... 73 Eberhard Knobloch (Berlin): Pedro Nuñes's contributions to the astronomy of early modern times .................................... 83 Paul Kunitzsch (Munich): Late traces of Arabic influence in European astronomy (17^th-18^thcenturies) ............................. 97 Mieczyslaw Markowski (Kraków): Astronomie als Leitwissenschaft an der Krakauer Universität in der vorkopernicanischen Zeit ......................................................... 103 Michael Segre (Chieti): Astronomy, astrology, and historiography .......................................................................... 115 Section II: Copernican astronomy and its early reception .... 125 Dennis Danielson (Vancouver, BC): Rheticus and the birth of trigonometry ......................................................................... 127 Karl Galle (Washington, DC): 16^th-century astronomy and its professional contexts: the case of Copernicus and calendar reform ....................................................................................... 143 Owen Gingerich (Cambridge, MA): The invisible astronomical network, 1543-1600 ............................................ 163