HISTORY 135C

Department of History
University of California, Irvine
 Instructor:    Dr. Barbara J. Becker

Week 3.  The Three Chief World Systems.

Supplementary readings for Week 3's lectures include excerpts from:

  • His Astronomicall Coniectur of the New and Much Admired [Star] which Appered in the Year 1572 (1632), by Tycho Brahe [translated by V.V.S.]
  • "Preface to the Reader" from Mysterium Cosmigraphicum (1596), by Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
  • The Dream, or Posthumous Work on Lunar Astronomy of Johannes Kepler, Late Imperial Mathematician (1634), by Kepler
  • The Other World, or the States and Empires of the Moon (1657), by Savinien de Cyrano (Cyrano de Bergerac; 1619-1655)

    • [NOTE:  This new English translation of Cyrano's L'Autre Monde... by Don Webb is part of an online series in the e-zine Bewildering Stories.  The Bewildering Stories site will open as a new page.]

 
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