Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xi
4. Preface and Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Copernicus’s Space of Possibilities
7. 1. The Literature of the Heavens and the Science of the Stars 25
8. 2. Constructing the Future 62
9. 3. Copernicus and the Crisis of the Bologna Prognosticators, 1496-1500 76
10. Part II. Confessional and Interconfessional Spaces of Prophecy and Prognostication
11. 4. Between Wittenberg and Rome: The New System, Astrology, and the End of the World 109
12. 5. The Wittenberg Interpretation of Copernicus’s Theory 141
13. 6. Varieties of Astrological Credibility 171
14. 7. Foreknowledge, Skepticism, and Celestial Order in Rome 194
15. Part III. Accommodating Unanticipated, Singular Novelties
16. 8. Planetary Order, Astronomical Reform, and the Extraordinary Course of Nature 223
17. 9. The Second-Generation Copernicans: Maestlin and Digges 259
18. 10. A Proliferation of Readings 281
19. Part IV. Securing the Divine Plan
20. 11. The Emergence of Kepler’s Copernican Representation 309
21. 12. Kepler’s Early Audiences, 1596-1600 336
22. Part V. Conflicted Modernizers at the Turn of the Century
23. 13. The Third-Generation Copernicans: Galileo and Kepler 353
24. 14. The Naturalist Turn and Celestial Order: Constructing the Nova of 1604 382
25. 15. How Kepler’s New Star Traveled to England 403
26. Part VI. The Modernizers, Recurrent Novelties, and Celestial Order
27. 16. The Struggle for Order 419
28. 17. Modernizing Theoretical Knowledge: Patronage, Reputation, Learned Sociability, Gentlemanly Veracity 434
29. 18. How Galileo’s Recurrent Novelties Traveled 455
30. Conclusion. The Great Controversy 485
31. Notes 515
32. Bibliography 605
33. Index 649