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Measuring shadows : Kepler's optics of invisibility / Raz Chen-Morris.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (xi, 247 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271077338
  • 0271077336
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Measuring shadows.DDC classification:
  • 535/.32 23
LOC classification:
  • QC380 .K4633 2016eb
Online resources:
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.
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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-234) and index.

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.

"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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