Kepler's philosophy and the new astronomy:
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Main Author: Martens, Rhonda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press ©2000
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-197) and index
Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. Kepler's Life and Times; 2. The Mysterium cosmographicum and Kepler's Early Approach to Natural Philosophy; 3. Kepler's Apologia: An Early Modern Treatise on Realism; 4. Kepler's Archetypes and the Astronomia nova; 5. The Aristotelian Kepler
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 Ke
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 201 pages)
ISBN:0691050694
1400831091
9780691050690
9781400831098

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