Abstract This article situates Edward Gresham's Astrostereon, or A Discourse of the Falling of the Planet (1603), a little-known English astronomical treatise, in the context of the cosmo-theological debate on the reconciliation of heliocentrism with the Bible, triggered by the publication of Nicholas Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543. Covering the period from the appearance of the ‘First Account’ of Copernican views presented in Georg Joachim Rheticus's Narratio Prima (1540) to the composition of Astrostereon in 1603, this paper places Edward Gresham's commentary and exegesis against the background of the views expressed by his countrymen and the thinkers associated with the Wittenberg University – such as Philipp Melanchthon, Caspar Peucer, and Christoph Rothmann. Comparing the ways in which they employed certain biblical passages – either in favour of or against the Earth's mobility – the paper emphasizes Gresham's ingenious reading of the Hebrew version of the problematic excerpts, and his expansion of the accommodation principle.

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Edward Gresham 的 Astrostereon（1603 年）在近代早期宇宙学和圣经讨论中的地位

摘要 本文将爱德华·格雷沙姆 (Edward Gresham) 的《天体论》或《行星坠落的论述》(A Discourse of the Falling of the Planet (1603)，一部鲜为人知的英国天文学论文)置于关于日心说与圣经和解的宇宙神学辩论的背景下，该辩论是由尼古拉斯·哥白尼 (Nicholas Copernicus) 于 1543 年出版了《天体大革命》。本文涵盖了从乔治·约阿希姆·莱蒂克斯 (Georg Joachim Rheticus) 的《首要叙事》(Narratio Prima，1540 年) 中提出的哥白尼观点“第一次叙述”的出现到 1603 年 Astrostereon 的构成这一时期，本文将爱德华·格雷沙姆 (Edward Gresham) 的评论放在并以他的同胞和与维滕贝格大学相关的思想家（例如菲利普·梅兰希通、卡斯帕·皮瑟和克里斯托夫·罗斯曼）所表达的观点为背景进行释经。比较他们使用某些圣经段落的方式——无论是赞成还是反对地球的运动——这篇论文强调了格雷沙姆对有问题的摘录的希伯来语版本的巧妙阅读，以及他对适应原则的扩展。