Raz Chen-Morris

Measuring Shadows

Kepler's Optics of Invisibility

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the astronomer Johannes Kepler's 1604 treatise on optics, explores Kepler's radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how he posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge in the early modern period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780271070995
• ISBN-10: 0271070994
• Artikelnr.: 48207436

Autorenporträt

Raz Chen-Morris is Senior Lecturer in History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Inhaltsangabe

"Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1The New Optical Narrative: Light, Camera Obscura, and the AstronomerÆs
Wings
2ôSeeing with My Own Eyesö: Introducing the New Foundations of Scientific
Knowledge
3The Content of KeplerÆs Visual Language: Abstraction, Representation, and
Recognition
4ôNon tanquam Pictor, sed tanquam Mathematicusö: KeplerÆs Pictures and the
Art of Painting
5Reading the Book of Nature: Allegories, Emblems, and Geometrical Diagrams
6Nothing and the Ends of Renaissance Science
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index