Resumen de As good as gold: the mobile earth and early modern economics
The writer reinterprets Thomas More's Utopia through an examination of its historical context. She examines the relevance of this passage in the context of developments in modern astronomy, and the way in which an argument of economic origin would be adapted to the cosmological debate. She focuses on how the traditional interpretation of the perfection of the heavens and the corruption of the earth, expressed by the general human preference for gold over iron, was subject to serious examination just before and immediately after the publication of Copernicus's On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres in 1543. She argues that the passage is part of a larger discourse proper to both astronomy and economics.
