Freeland G., Corones A. (eds.) 1543 and All That: Image and Word, Change and Continuity in the Proto-Scientific Revolution

Springer, 2000. — 404 p.For the history of science, 1543 is - by virtue of general consent and plain historiographical logic alike - the veritable annus mirabilis of the sixteenth century. It is not simply the fact that Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium eoelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) and Vesalius' De humani eorporis fabriea (On the Fabrie of the Human Body) were published in 1543 that renders the year remarkable, but that it marks the epiphany (rather than the nativity, much less the conception) of what might usefully be termed the 'Proto-Scientific Revolution'; that period, essentially High Renaissance in character, wh ich makes straight the way for the Scientific Revolution.
The present volume had its genesis in the earliest stage of planning for the 25th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (A2HPS3) held in July, 1992; an event which also marked the Silver Anniversary of the foundation of A2HPS3 itself in 1967. It was decided that there would be much to be said for inc1uding in the programme a symposium, titled '1543 And All That', which would herald the four hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Copernicus' De revolutionibus and Vesalius' De fabrica and which might in due course provide the basis for a volume of papers.Introduction: In Praise of Toothing-Stones (by Guy Freeland).
Vision and Visualisation in the Illustration of Anatomy and Astronomy from Leonardo to Galileo (by Martin Kemp).
Diagrammatic Reasoning and Modelling in the Imagination: The Secret Weapons of the Scientific Revolution (by James Franklin).
Body, Mind, and Order: Local Memory and the Control of Mental Representations in Medieval and Renaissance Sciences of Self (by John Suiton).
On the Stretch: Hobbes, Mechanics and the Shaking Palsy (by Jamie C. Kassler).
The Lamp in the Temple: Copernicus and the Demise of a Medieval Ecclesiastical Cosmology (by Guy Freeland).
Copernicus, Printing and the Politics of Knowledge (by Anthony Corones).
1543 - The Year that Copernicus Didn't Predict the Phases of Venus (by Neil Thomason).
The Natural, the Supernatural, and the Occult in the Scholastic Universe (by Keith Hutchison).
Early English Reformers and Magical Healing (by Kirsten Birkett).
Bellarmine to Foscarini on Copernicanism: A Theologian's Response (by Barry Brundell).