How Long to Read Novelties in the Heavens

How Long Does it Take to Read Novelties in the Heavens?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Novelties in the Heavens by Jean Dietz Moss

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this fascinating work, Jean Dietz Moss shows how the scientific revolution begun by Copernicus brought about another revolution as well—one in which rhetoric, previously used simply to explain scientific thought, became a tool for persuading a skeptical public of the superiority of the Copernican system. Moss describes the nature of dialectical and rhetorical discourse in the period of the Copernican debate to shed new light on the argumentative strategies used by the participants. Against the background of Ptolemy's Almagest, she analyzes the gradual increase of rhetoric beginning with Copernicus's De Revolutionibus and Galileo's Siderius nuncius, through Galileo's debates with the Jesuits Scheiner and Grassi, to the most persuasive work of all, Galileo's Dialogue. The arguments of the Dominicans Bruno and Campanella, the testimony of Johannes Kepler, and the pleas of Scriptural exegetes and the speculations of John Wilkins furnish a counterpoint to the writings of Galileo, the centerpiece of this study. The author places the controversy within its historical frame, creating a coherent narrative movement. She illuminates the reactions of key ecclesiastical and academic figures figures and the general public to the issues. Blending history and rhetorical analysis, this first study to look at rhetoric as defined by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century participants is an original contribution to our understanding of the use of persuasion as an instrument of scientific debate.

How long is Novelties in the Heavens?

Novelties in the Heavens by Jean Dietz Moss is 372 pages long, and a total of 93,744 words.

This makes it 126% the length of the average book. It also has 115% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Novelties in the Heavens Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 32 minutes to read Novelties in the Heavens aloud.

What Reading Level is Novelties in the Heavens?

Novelties in the Heavens is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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