Jerónimo Muñoz and Juan Cedillo Díaz: the Sun as the ‘heart of the world’ in the debate on Copernicus

The article examines the different evaluations of Copernicus and heliocentrism by the two most important Spanish astronomers between 1543 and 1633, Jerónimo Muñoz and Juan Cedillo, focusing on the motif of the Sun as the ‘heart of the world’. This motif, positively added by Cedillo in his manuscrip...

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Main Author: Miguel Angel Granada Martínez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Museo Galileo 2023-04-01
Series:Galilæana
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Online Access:https://gal-studies.museogalileo.it/index.php/galilaeana/article/view/9
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