Old Wives' Tales and the New World System: Gilbert, Galileo, and Kepler

Author / Editor
Reeves, Eileen.

Title
Old Wives' Tales and the New World System: Gilbert, Galileo, and Kepler

Published
Configurations 7.3 : 301-54, 1999.

Description
Reeves traces the evolution of old wives' tales (including WBT) and assesses how such tales represent fancy and superstition in early scientific theories of the Copernican system. However, the tales also promote the theory of extraterrestrial life, which is important to the system.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.