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Resources of Intellectual Legitimacy in Italian Cosmological Affairs: Cremonini and Bellarmine’s Authority Conflict (c.1616) 意大利宇宙学事务中的知识合法性资源:克雷莫尼尼与贝拉明的权威冲突(1616年)

Perspectives on Science Pub Date : 2022-07-15 DOI: 10.1162/posc_a_00563

P. Omodeo

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Playing with the Ancients: The Cosmology of Gilles Personne de Roberval 《玩转古人:吉尔斯·波森·德·罗伯瓦尔的宇宙学

Perspectives on Science Pub Date : 2022-07-15 DOI: 10.1162/posc_a_00565

Ovidiu Babeș

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“Trust No One But Yourself”: William Gilbert’s Use of Experiment and Rejection of Authority, Reconsidered “除了你自己，谁也不要相信”:威廉·吉尔伯特对实验的运用和对权威的拒绝，重新思考

Perspectives on Science Pub Date : 2022-07-15 DOI: 10.1162/posc_a_00564

J. Luggin

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Galileo and the Epistemology of Anatomy 伽利略与解剖学的认识论

Perspectives on Science Pub Date : 2022-07-15 DOI: 10.1162/posc_a_00568

Marco Sgarbi

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Constructing Authority in the Paratext: The Poems to Johannes Hevelius’ Selenographia 在副文本中建构权威——约翰内斯·赫维留的《硒地记》诗歌

Perspectives on Science Pub Date : 2022-07-15 DOI: 10.1162/posc_a_00569

Irina Tautschnig

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Defining “Cosmology” in the Early Modern System of Knowledge, 1530–1621 在早期现代知识体系中定义“宇宙学”，1530-1621

Perspectives on Science Pub Date : 2022-07-15 DOI: 10.1162/posc_a_00561

Dario Tessicini

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Introduction: Quis dixit? The Vicissitudes of Authority in Early Modern Cosmology 导语:Quis dixit?近代早期宇宙学权威的变迁

Perspectives on Science Pub Date : 2022-07-15 DOI: 10.1162/posc_e_00560

O. Akopyan, P. Omodeo

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Discussing Tides Before and After Newton: Roger Joseph Boscovich’s De aestu maris 论牛顿前后的潮汐:罗杰·约瑟夫·博斯科维奇的《论海洋》

Perspectives on Science Pub Date : 2022-07-15 DOI: 10.1162/posc_a_00567

O. Akopyan

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The Poetry of Jeremiah Horrocks’s Venus in sole visa (1662): Astronomy, Authority, and the ‘New Science’ 耶利米·霍罗克斯的《维纳斯》诗集(1662):天文学、权威和“新科学”

Perspectives on Science Pub Date : 2022-07-15 DOI: 10.1162/posc_a_00566

William M. Barton

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Milliet Dechales as Historian of Mathematics 米利特·德卡莱斯是数学历史学家

Perspectives on Science Pub Date : 2022-02-20 DOI: 10.1162/posc_a_00423

A. Malet

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