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Planetary Order, Astronomical Reform, and the Extraordinary Course of Nature
2011
Overview
Attention to the science of astronomy, already so well sustained in the Wittenberg cultural sphere, received an unexpected boost with the dramatic and unheralded arrival of two apparitions in the skies of the 1570s. One of these was a brilliant entity—represented variously as a meteor, a comet, or a new star—that appeared in 1572 and remained until May 1574; the other—represented almost universally as a “bearded star” or comet—could be seen for just over two months between November 1577 and January 1578. These unforeseen appearances, taken to be evidence of God’s extraordinary capacity to intervene in
Publisher
University of California Press
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ISBN
9780520254817, 0520254813
