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