{"_index":"sire","_type":"_doc","_id":"736","_score":null,"_source":{"id":736,"authors_free":[{"id":1099,"entry_id":736,"agent_type":null,"is_normalised":null,"person_id":217,"institution_id":null,"role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"},"free_name":"Knox, Dilwyn","free_first_name":"Dilwyn","free_last_name":"Knox","norm_person":{"id":217,"first_name":"Dilwyn","last_name":"Knox","full_name":"Knox, Dilwyn","short_ident":"","is_classical_name":null,"dnb_url":"http:\/\/d-nb.info\/gnd\/1048420108","viaf_url":"","db_url":"","from_claudius":null}}],"entry_title":"Copernicus's Doctrine of Gravity and the Natural Circular Motion of the Elements","main_title":{"title":"Copernicus's Doctrine of Gravity and the Natural Circular Motion of the Elements"},"abstract":"[Conclusion, pp. 210 f.]: The greatest debt [...] that Copernicus the cosmologist owed was not to Renaissance Platonism or a \r\nrevamped Aristotelianism. It was rather to the variety of ancient learning \r\npromoted by Renaissance humanists during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. \r\nTo them he owed., that is, not just the wherewithal and encouragement to consult \r\na much wider library of classical authors than his scholastic predecessors were \r\nwont to do but also the intellectual flexibility to regard his sources as no more \r\nthan that - sources for ideas rather than authorities. In this Copernicus was \r\ntypical of many sixteenth- and seventeenth-century 'scientific' thinkers, Galileo \r\nincluded.282 But Renaissance humanism left its mark in another important \r\nrespect. Copernicus set himself the task of learning Greek, and this provided \r\nhim, if the evidence above is to be trusted, with one of his most important \r\ncosmological doctrines.","btype":3,"date":"2005","language":"English","online_url":"","online_resources":"https:\/\/uni-koeln.sciebo.de\/s\/m7VrHz0WRSJ9NtK","doi_url":null,"categories":[],"authors":[{"id":217,"full_name":"Knox, Dilwyn","role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"}}],"book":null,"booksection":null,"article":{"id":736,"journal_id":null,"journal_name":"Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes","volume":"68","issue":"","pages":"157-211"}},"sort":["Copernicus's Doctrine of Gravity and the Natural Circular Motion of the Elements"]}