EARLY MODERN HISTORIES OF ASTRONOMY: THE VIEWS ON THE PROGRESS OF ASTRONOMY
EARLY MODERN HISTORIES OF ASTRONOMY: THE VIEWS ON THE PROGRESS OF ASTRONOMY

Author(s): Daniel Špelda
Subject(s): History, Philosophy
Published by: Scientia Socialis, UAB
Keywords: History of astronomy; Renaissance astronomy; Early modern science; Progress of science;
Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the various ways in which astronomers in early modern period viewed the progress of astronomy Some of the Renaissance astronomers and scholars thought that it is necessary to find and restore ancient astronomy which had been given by God to the first humans. Gradually, however, among astronomers and the early historians of mathematical sciences the view prevailed that the true astronomy is not hidden in the past of the human race, but awaits humanity in the future as a result of long–term, international and trans–generational cooperation.

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