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The participants to "Making of Copernicus" learn via the examine of specific examples how a number of the myths surrounding Copernicus happened and whether or not they have held their validity or have vanished altogether. Are there hyperlinks among a true or postulated transformation of pictures of the area and the applying of metaphors in technology, specially the metaphor of clinical revolution? What have been the interactions and conflations in technological know-how and literature that resulted in Copernicus being set on a pedestal or being forged down from it, and the way did they arrive approximately? Is there nevertheless any fallout from reconstructions and hagiographies within the historical past of technology at the literary snapshot of Copernicus provided through novelists down into the twentieth century? Papers care for the historical past of the reception of Copernicus now not by way of maintaining or rejecting him and his teachings, yet as particularly as a means of transformation. They therefore study variations of his doctrine: methodological, institutional, textual and visible - and differences of the old personage of Copernicus: topical, rhetorical, and literary. members are: Lucia Ayala, Tamas Demeter, Dana Jalobeanu, Jorg Jungmayr, Stefan Kirschner, Sergius Kodera, Andreas Kuhne, Wolfgang Neuber, Thomas Rahn, Steffen Schneider, Jonathan Schuz, Gereon Wolters, and Claus Zittel."

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Lucian and Plutarch as assets for Kepler’s Somnium“, Classical and glossy Literature nine (1989) 97–107. —Kepler erwog zudem, dem Somnium Lukians Raumreiseerzählung Vera historia als Anhang beizugeben. Vgl. den short Keplers an Bernegger vom four. Dezember 1625 in Kepler Johannes, Gesammelte Werke, ed. W. v. Dyck – M. Caspar, vol. 18: Briefe 1620–1630, ed. M. Caspar (München: 1959) 143. Zur LukianRezeption im Somnium vgl. Pantin I. , „Kepler et Lucien: des voyages extraordinaires au Ludus philosophicus“, in Ligota C. – Panizza L. (eds. ), Lucian of Samosata vivus et redivivus (London – Turin: 2007) 115–127. Vgl. den short Keplers an Bernegger vom four. Dezember 1625: ,Scripsit Campanella civitatem Solis, quid si nos Lunae? Anne egregium facinus Cyclopicos hujus temporis mores vivis coloribus depingere, sed cautionis causa terris cum tali scriptione excedere, inque Lunam secedere? Quanquam quid tergiversari juvabit? cum nec Morus in Utopia nec Erasmus in encomio Moriae, tuti fuerint, quin utrisque fuit apologiâ opus. Missam igitur penitus faciamus picem hanc politicam, nosque in amoenis Philosophiae viretis planè contineamus. ‘ Kepler, Gesammelte Werke vol. 18, 143. Vgl. speziell zu den frühneuzeitlichen Raumreiseerzählungen in Traumform Glomski J. , „Science Fiction within the 17th Century: The Neo-Latin Somnium and its dating with the Vernacular“, in Tilg S. – Walser I. (eds. ), Der neulateinische Roman als Medium seiner Zeit. The Neo-Latin Novel in its Time (Tübingen: 2013) 37–51. Schirrmeister A. , „Traum und Wissen in der Frühen Neuzeit. Erste Annäherungen“, Zeitsprünge five (2001) 297–310, hier 307. Die Erde als Mond 159 durch das ,Traum‘-Signal den (mehrdimensionalen) allegorischen Charakter des Somnium auszuweisen. thirteen Der textual content schachtelt drei Erzählebenen ineinander: Auf der ersten Ebene berichtet ein ,Kepler‘-Ich davon, wie es in den Schlaf fällt und zu träumen beginnt: Als im Jahr 1608 Streit zwischen den Brüdern Kaiser Rudolf und Erzherzog Matthias entbrannt battle, und guy ihre Handlungen allgemein auf Beispiele zurückführte, die aus der Geschichte Böhmens herangezogen waren, wurde ich durch die allgemeine Neugier erregt und wandte mich der Lektüre böhmischer Literatur zu. Dabei stieß ich auf die Geschichte der Heldin Libussa, einer hochberühmten Zauberin; so kam es, dass ich eines Nachts, nachdem ich den Mond und die Sterne betrachtet hatte, behaglich im Bett lag und in tiefen Schlaf fiel. Und ich sah mich im Schlaf ein Buch durchlesen, das ich in Frankfurt auf der Messe erworben hattte, dessen textual content folgender war:14 Auf der Ebene der Traumhandlung erzählt eine zweite Erzählinstanz, der Isländer Duracotus, wie es ihn in jungen Jahren, wegen einer Ungeschicklichkeit von der Mutter Fiolxhilde verstoßen, auf die dänische Insel Hven verschlägt, wo er von Tycho Brahe in der Astronomie unterwiesen wird. Nach Island zurückgekehrt, zeigt die Mutter des Duracotus, die sich auf die Magie versteht, großes Interesse an dem astronomischen Wissen ihres Sohnes und meint nun sterben zu können, weil dieser das Erbe ihrer Wissenschaft antreten werde.

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