Steve Hindle welcomes participants and attendees to the “Beyond the Copernican Revolution: New Narratives in Early Modern Science" conference, held at the Huntington Library on June 12, 2015. Hindle is the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington.

Peter Dear, discusses "Arguments, Reason, and Method: Commanding Assent on Astronomical Claims and Other Things”. Dear is Professor of the History of Science at Cornell University.

Sachiko Kusukawa, discusses "Early Modern Astronomical Images”. Kusukawa is a Fellow in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.