Astronomy: New Cosmology and Lutheran Theology
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F25%3A73626696" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/25:73626696 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789048565801_ch08" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789048565801_ch08</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789048565801_ch08" target="_blank" >10.5117/9789048565801_ch08</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Astronomy: New Cosmology and Lutheran Theology
Original language description
Astronomy was Hájek’s favourite scholarly field and it brought him the greatest fame. The historiography of science has often seen this part of Hájek's work astronomy from a contemporary perspective, neglecting its astrological and theological context. Hájek understood astrological predictions he himself made as a knowledge of divine providence, an approach close to Melanchthonian Lutheranism. This theological foundation is present not only in his early works on comets and in his specific interpretation of the so-called Turkish prophecy, but also in his later works. Theological reasoning, specifically the liturgical aspect, is also present in Hájek's assessment of the Gregorian calendar reform. In all his astronomical or astronomy-related works, Hájek strives for a Christian, pious interpretation of celestial phenomena.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-07439S" target="_blank" >GA19-07439S: Philosophy of Renaissance Medicine in the Czech Lands (Jessenius - Hájek - Khunrath - Paracelsus). New Approaches and Contexts</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Thaddaeus Hagecius, or Hájek, 1526-1600. Bohemian Polymath of the Rudolfine Period
ISBN
978-90-485-6580-1
Number of pages of the result
27
Pages from-to
231-257
Number of pages of the book
294
Publisher name
Amsterdam University Press
Place of publication
Amsterdam
UT code for WoS chapter
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