Coming of Age in the Milky Way (69 page)

13.
Ibid.

14.
In Pigafetta, 1969, p. 57.

15.
Aristotle,
De Caelo
, 298a, J. L. Stocks translation, McKeon edition, 1968, p. 437.

16.
See Heyerdahl, 1979.

17.
In Morison, 1963, p. 62.

18.
Ibid., p. 65.

19.
In Heyerdahl, 1979, p. 147.

20.
In Morison, 1963, p. 383.

21.
In Mason, 1977, p. 243.

22.
In MacCurdy, 1939, p. 276.

1.
Copernicus,
On the Revolutions
, Duncan translation, preface.

2.
In Panofsky, 1969, p. 10.

3.
Copernicus,
Commentariolus
, in Rosen, 1959.

4.
Copernicus,
On the Revolutions
, John Dobson and Selig Brodetsky, translators,
Occasional Notes of the Royal Astronomical Society
, Vol. 2, No. 10, 1947, in Kuhn, 1979, p. 139.

5.
Plutarch,
Moralia
, XII, p. 925; Cherniss and Helmbold translation, p. 75.

6.
Nicole Oresme, “The Compatibility of the Earth’s Diurnal Rotation With Astronomical Phenomena and Terrestrial Physics,” in Grant, Edward, 1974, p. 505.

7.
Copernicus,
On the Revolutions
, Wallis translation, pp. 526–527.

8.
In Kuhn, 1979, p. 130.

9.
Copernicus,
On the Revolutions
, Wallis translation, pp. 526–527.

10.
Ibid., p. 511.

11.
In Bienkowska, 1973.

12.
In Russell, Bertrand, 1945, p. 528.

13.
Martin Luther,
Table Talk
, p. 69, in Fosdick, 1952, p. xviii.

14.
Copernicus,
On the Revolutions
, Wallis translation, pp. 516, 549. The translation has been altered slightly.

15.
Aristotle,
On the Heavens
, 270:14, J.L. Stocks translation, in McKeon, 1968.

16.
Tycho,
Progymnasmata
,
Chapter 3
, in Clark and Stephenson, 1977, p. 174.

17.
Tycho,
De Nova Stella
, in Clark and Stephenson, 1977, p. 172.

18.
In Dryer, 1890, p. 27.

19.
In Koestler, 1959, p. 273.

20.
Ibid., p. 276.

21.
In Baumgardt, 1951, p. 17.

22.
Plato,
Republic
, VII: 530d, Paul Shorey translation, in Hamilton and Cairns edition, 1969.

23.
Ibid., X:617c.

24.
Aristotle,
On the Heavens
, 290b, J.L. Stocks translation, in Barnes, 1984, p. 479.

25.
“On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity,” XIII, in Milton, 1952.

26.
Shakespeare,
Merchant of Venice
, Act V, Scene 1.

27.
Kepler,
The Harmonies of the World
, Wallis translation, pp. 1034, 1048.

28.
Kepler,
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
, p. 897.

29.
In Koestler, p. 304.

30.
Ibid, p. 278.

31.
Ibid.

32.
Ibid.

33.
In Dryer, 1980, p. 386.

34.
Kepler,
The New Astronomy
, in Koyré, 1973, p. 231.

35.
Kepler,
The Harmonies of the World
, Wallis translation, p. 1009.

36.
Ibid., p. 1009.

37.
In Koestler, p. 381.

38.
Ibid.

39.
Ibid., p. 414.

40.
Ibid., p. 421.

1.
Letter to Cosimo de’ Medici, 1610, in Drake, 1957, p. 61.

2.
In Fermi and Bernardini, 1961, p. 12.

3.
Galileo,
The Assayer
, in Drake, 1957, p. 238.

4.
Galileo,
The Starry Messenger
, in Drake, 1957, p. 29.

5.
In Fermi and Bernardini, 1961, p. 51.

6.
Brecht, 1966, Scene 3, p. 66. The Galileo quotations are of course Brecht’s inventions.

7.
Galileo,
The Starry Messenger
, Drake translation, p. 28.

8.
Ibid., p. 57.

9.
Ibid., p. 94.

10.
Ibid., p. 49.

11.
In Weaver, 1987, p. 683.

12.
In Galileo,
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
, Drake translation, p. xix.

13.
Galileo,
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
, Crew and De Salvio translation, p. 63.

14.
Galileo,
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
, pp. 186–187.

15.
Galileo,
Letters on Sunspots, in Drake
, 1957, p. 113.

16.
Galileo,
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
, p. 462.

17.
I. Bernard Cohen, “An Interview With Einstein,” in French, 1979, p. 41.

18.
In Galileo,
The Sidereal Messenger
, Carlos translation, p. 111.

19.
In Fermi & Bernardini, 1961, p. 72.

20.
Galileo,
Letters on Sunspots
, in Drake, 1957, p. 62.

21.
In Koestler, p. 440.

22.
Bellarmine, letter to Paolo Foscarini, in Drake, 1957, pp. 163–164.

23.
Ibid., p. 164.

24.
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, in Drake, 1957, p. 166.

25.
In Geymonat, 1965, pp. 85, 83.

26.
Ibid., p. 73.

27.
Koestler, p. 471.

28.
Ibid., p. 472.

29.
Galileo,
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
, p. 319.

30.
In Geymonat, p. 146.

31.
In Singer, 1917, p. 269.

32.
Science 81
, March 1981, p. 14.

33.
In Kesten, 1945, p. 93.

34.
Book VIII, 11. 167ff., in Milton 1952.

1.
J.M. Keynes, “Newton, The Man,”
The Royal Society Newton Tercentenary Celebrations
, Cambridge University Press, 1947, p. 27.

2.
Westfall, 1980, p. 354.

3.
In Manuel, 1968, p. 26.

4.
In Westfall, p. 65.

5.
Ibid., p. 89.

6.
Ibid., p. 22.

7.
Ibid., p. 143.

8.
Ibid., p. 188–189.

9.
Ibid., p. 245.

10.
In Spinoza, 1928, p. 80.

11.
In Jones, 1981, p. 197.

12.
Descartes,
Geometry
, p. 353.

13.
William Stukeley,
Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton’s Life
, in Cohen, I. Bernard, 1971, p. 301.

14.
In Manuel, pp. 27–28.

15.
In Westfall, p. 141.

16.
Ibid., p. 405.

17.
Ibid., p. 406.

18.
Ibid.

19.
In Parton, 1882, Vol. 2, p. 213.

20.
Newton,
Principia
, Cajori-Motte translation, p. 13.

21.
Ibid.

22.
In Westfall, p. 459.

23.
Ibid.

24.
Ibid., p. 581.

25.
In Manuel, p. 216.

26.
In Cohen, I. Bernard, 1958, p. 7.

27.
Ibid., p. 284.

28.
Newton,
Principia
, Cajori-Motte translation, p. 547.

29.
Ibid.

30.
Einstein, “Autobiographical Notes,” in Schilpp, 1969, pp. 32–33.

31.
In Cohen, I. Bernard, 1958, p. 7.

32.
In Dampier, 1949, p. 197.

33.
In Cohen, I. Bernard, 1958, p. 284.

1.
Huygens,
Systema Saturnium
, 1659, in Van Helden, 1985, p. 123.

2.
Richard Hakluyt,
Principal Navigations
, 2nd ed., Vol. 1, 1598, in Landes, 1983, p. 110.

3.
In Howse, 1980, p. 12.

4.
Edmond Halley, “A Unique Method by which the Parallax of the Sun, or its Distance from the Earth, may be Securely Determined by Means of Observing Venus Against the Sun,”
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
, No. 348, April-June, 1716, pp. 454–455, 460, Dave Fredrick, translator.

5.
In Albert Van Helden, “The Importance of the Transit of Mercury of 1631,”
Journal for the History of Astronomy
, Vol. 7,
Part 1
, No. 18, February 1976.

6.
In Fernie, 1976, p. 10.

7.
Ibid.

8.
Ibid., p. 39.