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Measuring shadows Kepler's optics of invisibility
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Measuring shadows [electronic resource] : Kepler's optics of invisibility / Raz Chen-Morris.
ISBN
0271077336
9780271077338
9780271070988 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 247 pages :) : illustrations ;
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Summary
"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"--Provided by publisher.
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 History.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 29, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-234) and index.
Contents
The new optical narrative : light, camera obscura, and the astronomer's wings
"Seeing with my own eyes" : introducing the new foundations of scientific knowledge
The content of Kepler's visual language : abstraction, representation, and recognition
"Non tanquam pictor, sed tanquam mathematicus" : Kepler's pictures and the art of painting
Reading the book of nature : allegories, emblems, and geometrical diagrams
Nothing and the ends of Renaissance science.
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