Resumo de Copernkus In English Intellectual Culture In Shakespeare`s Epoch

HENRYK ZINSMIKO?AJ KOPERNIK W ANGIELSKIEJ KULTURZE UMYS?WEJ EPOKI SZEKSPIRA, Wroc?aw 1972 (wydawnictwo OSSOLINEUM)COPERNKUS IN ENGLISH INTELLECTUAL CULTURE IN SHAKESPEARE`S EPOCH, Wroc?aw 1972 The subject of this book deals with the dawning of perception of Copernikus and his theory to English cultural consciousness in the second half of the XVI c. and the outset of the XVII c. and its influence upon science and literature in Shakespearian Epoch. It was in England where in those times men of dcience most readily accepted the Polish astronomer`s views. Almos all eminet English matematicians and naturalists approved of the theories of the author of DE REVOLUTIONIBUS. The opposition to Copernicus revolution was much weaker in England than in the majority of other countries. This work embraces 7 chapters and an annex with the text of the first English translation of parts of DE REVOLUTIONIBUS made by Thomas Digges in 1576. Numeros old prints of scientific and popular - scientific works from the second half of the XVI c. and the outset of the XVII c. provided the principal source for this treatise. The author used moreover several treatises on English scentific and intellectual life in the Shakespearian Epoch and on the situacion of exact sciences in Europe of those times. Except for several brief articles, the problem dealing wuth the beginning of the reception of Copernicus theory in England has not been elaborated so far, furthermore many errirs and misunderstandings may be found in several general elaborations. Thus for examples, D. Stimson an American research worker, argued erroneously that English scholsrs of the second half of the XVII c. rejected Copernicus theory in essence, and considers William Gilbert and Giordano Bruno as its first supporters. From the chronological point of view the work embraces in substance the years 1556 - 1619 but goes beyond this limit when necessary to present a wider perspective. Terminus post quem is the year 1556 when the first two works were published in England. These works did not only reveal conversance with the Coprnican theory but proved its recognition and acceptance. Terminus ante quem is the year 1619 when the Chair of Astronomy was founded at Oxford and works of Copernicus included into studies of this University...Chapter I: THE BEGINNINGS OF THE RECEPTION OF COPERNICUSChapter II: KNOWLEDGE OF ASTRONOMY IN ENGLAND PRIOR THE COPERNICUSChapter III: THE FIRST FOLLOWERS OF COPERNICUS THEORY IN XVI C. ENGLANDChapter IV: THOMAS DIGGES AND THE FIRST TRANSLATION OF COPERNICUS INTO ENGLISH IN 1576Chapter V: THE UNDERSTANDING OF COPERNICUS THEORY IN ENGLISH SCIENCE AT THE TURN OF THE XVI - XVII C..Chapter VI: ECHOES OF COPERNICUS DISCOVERY IN ENGLISH LITERATURE AT THE OUTSET OF THE XVII C.Chapter VII: A PICTURE OF COPERNICUS AT OXFORD FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE XVII C.

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