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Kepler's philosophy and the new astronomy
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Kepler's philosophy and the new astronomy [electronic resource] / Rhonda Martens.
ISBN
1400831091
9781400831098
0691050694 (alk. paper)
9780691050690
Published
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 201 p. :) : ill. ;
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Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Complete Supplement III.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Philosophy and Religion Supplement III.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 11, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-197) and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Kepler's Life and Times
Select Biography
Kepler's Astronomical Inheritance
Kepler's Philosophical Inheritance
2. The Mysterium cosmographicum and Kepler's Early Approach
to Natural Philosophy
The Content of the Mysterium cosmographicum
Kepler' Cosmology
Kepler' Approach to Natural Philosophy
3. Kepler's Apologia: An Early Modern Treatise on Realism
Extra-Astronomical Considerations
The Nature of Astronomical Hypotheses
The Testing of Astronomical Hypotheses
Kepler's Improved Notion of Testability
Concluding Remarks: The Archetypes
4. Kepler's Archetypes and the Astronomia nova
The Status of Hypotheses in Physical Astronomy
The Replacement of the Mean by the True Sun
The Vicarious Hypothesis
The New Physics
Kepler' Second Law
Oval Orbits
Physical and Geometrical Models of Libration
The Ellipse of Chapter 59
Concluding Remarks: Archetypes in the Astronomia
5. The Aristotelian Kepler
The Aristotelian Challenge
Physical Astronomy as a Mixed Discipline
The Mathematical and the Physical
Concluding Remarks
6. The Harmonice mundi
Kepler and Ptolemy
The Essence of Archetypal Mathematics
Synopsis of Book V
The Influence of Kepler's Harmonies on His Cosmology
7. The Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae: Kepler's Mature
Physical Astronomy
The Nature of Astronomy and Observation
Archetypes as a Prerequisite for Physics
Book IV and the Archetypes
Book V
Concluding Remarks
Conclusion
The Fate of Kepler's Philosophical Thought
The Threat to the Perfectibility of Astronomy
Kepler's Philosophical Legacy
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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