12 November, 2017
Simon Schaffer – Authorized Prophets: Comets and Astronomers after 1759
Simon Schaffer, “Authorized Prophets: Comets and Astronomers after 1759,” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 17 (1987): 45-74. Response [...]
2 November, 2017
Description of John Gadbury – De Cometis (1665)
John Gadbury, De Cometis, 1665. John Gadbury’s 1665 publication De Cometis, written in response to the three comets that appeared between 1664 and 1665, [...]
18 October, 2017
John Bainbridge Historiography
Setting John Bainbridge’s An Astronomicall Description of the Late Comet in its historiographic context is less a matter of recounting an obvious and [...]
16 October, 2017
John Bainbridge – An Astronomicall Description of the late Comet
The 1619 Edward Griffin-published version of John Bainbridge’s An Astronomicall Description of the late Comet’s paratext is composed of a title page, a [...]
6 October, 2017
Rienk Vermij – Johannes Phocylides Holwarda and the Interpretation of New Stars in the Dutch Republic
Rienk Vermij, “Johannes Phocylides Holwarda and the Interpretation of New Stars in the Dutch Republic,” in Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology, [...]
21 September, 2017
Rienk Vermij – “A Science of Signs:
Rienk Vermij, “A Science of Signs: Aristotelian Meteorology in Reformation Germany,” Early Science and Medicine 15, no. 6 (2010). Response In “A Science of [...]
15 September, 2017
C. Scott Dixon – Popular Astrology and Lutheran Propaganda in Reformation Germany
C. Scott Dixon, “Popular Astrology and Lutheran Propaganda in Reformation Germany,” History 84, no. 275 (July 1999). Response In his “Popular Astrology and [...]
15 September, 2017
Lynn Thorndike – Latin Treatises on Comets Between 1238 and 1368 A.D. – Albertus Magnus
Lynn Thorndike, Latin Treatises on Comets Between 1238 and 1368 A.D. (Chicago: Chgo UP, 1950). Response Here in the third tractatus of his first book of [...]
8 September, 2017
