The volume articles examine exemplarily how some of the Copernicus myths came about and if they could hold their ground. They investigate methodological, institutional, textual and visual transformations of the Copernican doctrine and the topical, rhetorical and literary transformations of the historical person of Copernicus respectively.

Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: The Making of Copernicus WOLFGANG NEUBER, THOMAS RAHN, CLAUS ZITTEL PART ONE THE COPERNICAN TURN: METHODOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND REJECTIONS The Decline of Medieval Disputation Culture and the ‘Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory’ STEFAN KIRSCHNER, ANDREAS KÜHNE The Silence of the Wolves, Or, Why it Took the Holy Inquisition Seventy-Three Years to Ban Copernicanism GEREON WOLTERS A Natural History of the Heavens: Francis Bacon’s Anti-Copernicanism DANA JALOBEANU Hume’s Copernican Turn TAMÁS DEMETER PART TWO NEW ASTRONOMY: TEXTUAL AND GRAPHIC TRANSFORMATIONS Arguing for One’s World. Copernicus’s Theories and Their Reception in Jean Bodins Theatrum JONATHAN SCHÜZ Writing after Copernicus. Epistemology and Poetics in Giordano Bruno’s Ash Wednesday Supper STEFFEN SCHNEIDER Die Erde als Mond. Kopernikanische Wenden in Raumreiserzählungen des 17. Jahrhunderts (Kepler, Godwin, Cyrano de Bergerac) THOMAS RAHN Decentralisation of the Sun as Beginning of Modernity. The Transition from Copernicanism to the Plurality of Worlds in French Engravings LUCÍA AYALA PART THREE NEW ASTRONOMERS: BIOGRAPHICAL TRANSFORMATIONS Timid Mathematicians vs. Daring Explorers of the Infinite Cosmos: Giordano Bruno, Literary Self-Fashioning and De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. SERGIUS KODERA ‘Copernicus Found a Treasure the True Value of Which He Did Not Know at All’. The Life of Copernicus by Pierre Gassendi CLAUS ZITTEL Hero of the Bourgeois World. Copernicus and His Afterlife in German Literature WOLFGANG NEUBER Max Brod: Tycho Brahes Weg zu Gott JÖRG JUNGMAYR Index Nominum