A More Perfect Heaven (37 page)

p.
190
“On my return … sorrow.”
Rosen,
De rev
, 339.

p.
190
“I have written … Preface.”
Rosen,
De rev
, 339.

p.
192
“I am not … zeal.”
Rosen,
De rev
, 339.

p.
192
“a man … to appear”
and “not … scholars.”
De rev
, Copernicus Dedication (Rosen, 3).

p.
192
“I explain … weak.”
Rosen,
De rev
, 339.

p.
192
“for if … deceased.”
Rosen,
De rev
, 340.

p.
193
“acerbities”
and “omitted and sweetened,” Rosen,
De Rev
, 340.

p.
194
“She … to you.”
Rosen,
Scientific Revolution
, 169.

p.
196
“He has halfway … refused”
and “He lay ill … him alone.” Danielson, 217–18.

p.
197
“stimulated … bodies”
and “to … Leipzig.” Danielson, 129.

p.
198
“whose hand … this world.”
Danielson, 139.

p.
198
“I have not … width.”
Danielson, 139.

p.
198
“What sort … and devotion.”
Danielson, 143.

p.
198
“a sudden … unchristian,”
“minor child,” and “plied … sodomy.” Danielson, 143–44.

p.
199
“I have … stars.”
Danielson, 162.

p.
200
“again … commentary.”
Danielson, 172.

p.
200
“We had … of day.”
Westman in Gingerich,
Nature of Scientific Discovery
; Danielson, 191.

p.
201
“Twice … drowning.”
Danielson, 193.

p.
201
“I excavated … wonderfully.”
Danielson, 199.

CHAPTER 10

p.
202
“I deem … contemplate it.”
Caspar, 384.

p.
202
–3
“In truth … world.”
Ferguson, 47.

p.
207
“I consider … astronomy.”
Astronomia Nova
(Donahue, 43; Ferguson, 98–99).

p.
207
“burning eagerness.”
Ferguson, 155.

p.
208
“Days and nights … wind.”
Mysterium
(Caspar, 63; Ferguson, 192).

p.
209
“I build … world.”
Epitome
(Wallis, 10).

p.
210
“I was … ridiculous me.”
Astronomia nova
(Gingerich and Ann Brinkley, quoted in Gingerich,
Eye
, 320).

p.
210
“sacred frenzy.”
Gingerich,
Eye
, 407.

p.
210
“If you … much time.”
Gingerich,
Eye
, 357.

p.
210
“hesitating … machine.”
Mysterium
(Giora Han in Kremer and Wlodarczyk, 208).

p.
211
“It is … Copernicus.”
Gingerich,
Eye
, 300.

p.
211
“the unexpected … natural causes.”
Rudolfine Tables
(Ferguson, 346).

p.
211
“Thee, O Lord … to that.”
Harmonies of the World
(Wallis, 240).

CHAPTER 11

p.
214
“The constitution … the word.”
Dedication in Galileo’s
Dialogue
(Drake, 3–4).

p.
214
“Would it … effort.”
Ferguson, 206.

p.
217
“Summon men … at all.”
Rosen,
Scientific Revolution
, 189.

p.
217
“concerning … humanity”
and “read the … class.”
Astronomia nova
(Donahue, 19, 21). Science historian William H. Donahue, who translated the
New Astronomy
from the Latin, says that Kepler’s arguments on the interpretation of Scripture became the most widely read of his writings, often reprinted in modern languages, and the only work by Kepler to appear in English before the 1870s.

p.
218
“I believe … completely.”
Galileo’s
Letter to the Grand Duchess Cristina
(Drake,
Discoveries
, 183–84). In addition to the passages quoted here from the
Letter to the Grand Duchess Cristina
, in dependent scholar Stillman Drake translated all of Galileo’s works, most of which were written and originally published in Italian, not Latin.

p.
218
–19
“To ban … of Heaven.”
Letter
(Drake,
Discoveries
, 196.)
p.
219
“Now let us … teach us astronomy.”
Letter
(Drake,
Discoveries
, 211–12.)
p.
220
“If we … stop too.”
Letter
(Drake,
Discoveries
, 212–13.)
p.
221
“the whole system … sacred text”
and “in … heavens.”
Letter
(Drake,
Discoveries
, 213–14).

p.
221
“Grave … retardation”
and “if … it resides.”
Letter
(Drake,
Discoveries
, 214–15).

p.
222
“The words … in motion.”
Quoted in Drake,
Discoveries
, 164.

p.
222
“the quiescence … erroneous in faith.”
Consultants’ Report on Copernicanism, Finocchiaro, 146.

p.
223
“false … Scripture.”
Decree of the Index, Finocchiaro, 149.

CHAPTER 12

In 1854 Jan Baranawski, a director of the Warsaw Observatory, published Copernicus’s complete works in Latin and Polish—the first full translation into a modern language.

p.
226
“I have … gave it up.”
Gingerich,
Census
, xxvii. Gingerich gave running commentary on his search for all sixteenth-century copies of Copernicus’s book in academic periodicals, such as
American Scholar
and the
Journal for the History of Astronomy
. He also wrote a complete popular account, called
The Book Nobody Read
(Walker, 2004).

p.
229
“It is very … passage.”
Gingerich,
Census
, xxii.

p.
230
“For is … the Sun?”
Gingerich,
Census
, 78.

p.
230
–31
“Does the … irregularity.”
Gingerich,
Census
, 79.

p.
235
“So vast … Almighty.”
De rev
I, 10 (Rosen, 22).

Illustration Credits

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Illustration of the Copernicus world system from a 17th century atlas by Gerard Valk and Peter Schenk. Corbis image #PG6097

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and
xii:
Maps copyright © 2011 by Jeffrey L. Ward
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