Renaissance Natural Philosophy - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Cosmology
Dick, Steven J. "The Heliocentric Theory, Scripture, and the Plurality of Earths." In Plurality of Worlds: The Origins of the Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Democritus to Kant. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982, 246 p.
Discusses the influence of philosophers Giordano Bruno and Tommaso Campanella and astronomer Johannes Kepler on Renaissance beliefs regarding the nature of the world and the universe.
Johnson, Francis R. Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England: A Study of the English Scientific Writings from 1500 to 1645. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1937, 357 p.
Discusses the writings of Copernicus, Thomas Digges, and Tycho Brahe in an analysis of the development of cosmological beliefs.
Astrology
Allen, Don Cameron. The Star-Crossed Renaissance: The Quarrel about Astrology and Its Influence in England....
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