The reception of Copernicus in sixteenth-century Spain. The case of Diego de Zúñiga.

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History Of Astronomy: Philosophical Aspects

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Among the Copernicans of the sixteenth century listed by Westman, only one Spaniard appears: the Augustinian friar, philosopher, and theologian Diego de Zúñiga. The object of this essay is to discuss the questions raised, first by Zúñiga's defense of heliocentrism in In Job commentaria and, second, by his change of mind as displayed in the Philosophia prima pars. The author attempts to relate these two works to the intellectual biography of Zúñiga and to the scientific and cultural contexts in which they were written. In so doing the author hopes to contribute to the history, in great part still to be written, of astronomical, philosophical, and cosmological ideas in sixteenth-century Spain, as well as to make Spanish materials available for comparative study.

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