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Continuity and Change in Cosmological Ideas in Spain Between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: The Impact of Celestial Novelties
Víctor Navarro Brotónssubject
SupernovaGeographyCelestial bodyAstrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaAbandonment (legal)Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar AstrophysicsAstrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic AstrophysicsModern physicsAstrophysics::Galaxy AstrophysicsPhysics::History of PhysicsClassicsCosmologyConstellationdescription
The star which became visible in 1572 in the constellation of Cassiopeia (identified by twentieth-century astronomers as a Type I supernova), and the works and polemics to which it gave rise, marked an important stage in the abandonment of Aristotelian and medieval cosmology and their replacement by the idea of the infinite—or indefinite—universe of modern physics and astronomy.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-11-10 |