Abstracts
Abstract
A discussion of Before Copernicus: The Cultures and Contexts of Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth Century edited by Rivka Feldhay and F. Jamil Ragep.
Keywords:
- The Scientific Revolution,
- Copernicus,
- Context,
- Commentariolus,
- De revolutionibus
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