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Johannes Kepler contributed importantly to every field he addressed. He changed the face of astronomy by abandoning principles that had been in place for two millennia, made important discoveries in optics and mathematics, and was an uncommonly good philosopher. Generally, however, Kepler's philosophical ideas have been dismissed as irrelevant and even detrimental to his legacy of scientific accomplishment. Here, Rhonda Martens offers the first extended study of Kepler's philosophical views and shows how those views helped him construct and justify the new astronomy. Martens notes that since Kepler became a Copernican before any empirical evidence supported Copernicus over the entrenched Ptolemaic system, his initial reasons for preferring Copernicanism were not telescope observations but rather methodological and metaphysical commitments. Further, she shows that Kepler's metaphysics supported the strikingly modern view of astronomical method that led him to discover the three laws of planetary motion and to wed physics and astronomy--a key development in the scientific revolution. By tracing the evolution of Kepler's thought in his astronomical, metaphysical, and epistemological works, Martens explores the complex interplay between changes in his philosophical views and the status of his astronomical discoveries. She shows how Kepler's philosophy paved the way for the discovery of elliptical orbits and provided a defense of physical astronomy's methodological soundness. In doing so, Martens demonstrates how an empirical discipline was inspired and profoundly shaped by philosophical assumptions.
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Genre |
: Science |
Author |
: Rhonda Martens |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Release |
: 2009-08-16 |
File |
: 216 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781400831098 |
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Birth of astronomy -- Celestial sphere -- Some applications of spherics -- Calendars and time reckoning -- Solar theory -- Fixed stars -- Planetary theory -- Frequently used tables -- Appendix : patterns for models.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: James Evans |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Release |
: 1998-10 |
File |
: 495 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780195095395 |
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Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning analyses the works of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) on natural philosophy in a series of contexts within which they may best be explored and understood. Its aim is to place Edwards's writings on natural philosophy in the broad historical, theological and scientific context of a wide variety of religious responses to the rise of modern science in the early modern period - John Donne's reaction to the new astronomical philosophy of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo, as well as to Francis Bacon's new natural philosophy; Blaise Pascal's response to Descartes' mechanical philosophy; the reactions to Newtonian science and finally Jonathan Edwards's response to the scientific culture and imagination of his time.
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Genre |
: Religion |
Author |
: Avihu Zakai |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Release |
: 2010-05-20 |
File |
: 342 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780567070951 |
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There are thirty-six illustrations."--Jacket.
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Genre |
: Art |
Author |
: Robert D. Huerta |
Publisher |
: Bucknell University Press |
Release |
: 2005 |
File |
: 149 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780838756065 |
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This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general (principally mechanics). An essential supplement to Drake's translations and other books.
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Genre |
: Philosophy |
Author |
: Stillman Drake |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Release |
: 1999-01-01 |
File |
: 524 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802075851 |
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Genre |
: Philosophy |
Author |
: Daniel Garber |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2003 |
File |
: 676 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521537215 |
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This is a concise but wide-ranging account of all aspects of the Scientific Revolution from astronomy to zoology. The third edition has been thoroughly updated, and some sections revised and extended, to take into account the latest scholarship and research and new developments in historiography.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: John Henry |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Release |
: 2008-06-03 |
File |
: 176 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781137079046 |
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Recent decades have witnessed the fragmentation of Reformation studies, with high-level research confined within specific geographical, confessional or chronological boundaries. By bringing together scholars working on a wide variety of topics, this volume counteracts this centrifugal trend and provides a broad perspective on the impact of the European reformation. The essays present new research from historians of politics, of the church and of belief. Their geographical scope ranges from Scotland and England via France and Germany to Transylvania and their chronological span from the 1520s to the 1690s Considering the impact of the Reformation on political culture and examining the relationship between rulers and ruled; the book also examines the church and its personnel, another sphere of life that was entirely transformed by the Reformation. Important aspects of knowledge and belief are discussed in terms of scientific knowledge and technological progress, juxtaposed with analyses of elite and popular belief, which demonstrates the limitations of Weber's notion of the disenchantment of the world. Together they indicate the diverse directions in which Reformation scholarship is now moving, while reminding us of the need to understand particular developments within a broader European context; demonstrating that movements for religious reform left no sphere of European life untouched.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Ole Peter Grell |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Release |
: 2017-05-15 |
File |
: 300 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781351887861 |
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This fourth book in the Nexus series offers papers that further broaden the horizons of studies in architecture and mathematics.
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Genre |
: Architecture |
Author |
: Kim Williams |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 2002 |
File |
: 280 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015056878070 |
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The authors have presented and interpreted Johannes Kepler's Latin text to English readers by putting it into the kind of clear but earnest language they suppose Kepler would have used if he had been writing today.
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Genre |
: Science |
Author |
: Johannes Kepler |
Publisher |
: American Philosophical Society |
Release |
: 1997 |
File |
: 618 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0871692090 |