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Biblia w poemacie Mikołaja Kopernika Septem Sidera

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Biliński K.
Prace Literackie
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2010
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vol. 50
5-13
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The article “The Bible in Nicolaus Copernicus’ poem Septem Sidera” focuses on the relation between seven odes and the biblical subject matter — waiting for the Messiah, his birth, his circumcision, three Wise Men offering him gifts and his teachings in the temple. All those scenes have their own implications in the Old Testament and the New Testament. They are supported by the rich content (Asclepiadean metre in the Latin translation). The division of the poem into seven parts may reflect the number of odes and the same number of stanzas. It is not certain if it was Nicolaus Copernicus who wrote the poem and that is why it is better to say that the poem is attributed to Copernicus.
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De revolutionibus orbium coelestium Mikołaja Kopernika jako rozprawka o metodzie

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Żelazna J.
Filo-Sofija
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2007
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vol. 7
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issue 7
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In addition to the calculations comprehensible to the astronomers, the work of Copernicus presented to Pope Paul III for approval, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, includes also a descriptive introduction. The author uses it to report on the current astronomical knowledge, explains the importance of the accomplishments of his great predecessors, as well as the reasons for which a correction of their theories is necessary. In this part of the work the importance of discovery and adjustment of a proper method to a specific area of nature research is stressed as well-long before the Descartian Discourse on the Method. Copernicus stresses that the mistakes of his predecessors occurred because “something necessary” would be often discarded, and replaced by something “alien, not belonging to the matter”. The selective treatment of the phenomena and justification of the relations between them using non-meritorical indications and arguments might, but does not have to lead to the correct conclusions. The introduction and the first tome of De revolutionibus provide an example of a discourse on a method of creating knowledge. Copernicus displayed the benefits of his method, relating mainly to the authority of Aristotle, Ptolemy and Euclid. His accomplishment opened the way leading to revealing many other invisible assumptions, limiting the possibilities of researching nature. Some of them – the relation of subject and object, the trap of idealisation and usage of the models of researched phenomena – are discussed in the following article.
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