Kepler S Philosophy And The New Astronomy

Author : Rhonda Martens
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400831098

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Kepler's Philosophy and the New Astronomy by Rhonda Martens Pdf

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.

Author : Nicholas Jardine
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1988-02-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521346991

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Apologia Pro Tychone Contra Ursum by Nicholas Jardine Pdf

Nicholas Jardine offers here an edition and the first translation into English of Johannes Kepler's A Defence of Tycho against Ursus. He accompanies this with essays on the provenance of the treatise - the circumstances which provoked Kepler to write it, an analysis of its strategy, style and historical sources and of the contents of Ursus' Treatise on Astronomical Hypotheses to which Kepler was replying. Dr Jardine also provides three extended interpretive essays on the intrinsic interest and historical significance of the work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004437272

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Kepler’s New Star (1604) by Anonim Pdf

By examining the pressing questions the supernova of 1604 prompted, Kepler’s New Star traces the enduring impact of Kepler and his star on the course of modern science.

Author : J. V. Field
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472510785

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Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology by J. V. Field Pdf

Kepler is a key figure in the development of modern astronomy. His work is also important in the history of philosophy and methodology of science as a whole. The present study is concerned with one of Kepler's major preoccupations, namely his search for the geometrical plan according to which God created the Universe. The author discusses how Kepler's cosmological theories, which embrace music and astrology as well as astronomy, are related to his other work. The subject will be of great interest to historians of science, mathematicians and astronomers as well as to historians of the late Renaissance.

Author : Patrick J. Boner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004246096

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Kepler's Cosmological Synthesis by Patrick J. Boner Pdf

Spanning the course of his career, this book brings new light to Kepler’s vitalistic views and their central place in his world picture. It challenges our view of Kepler as a nascent mechanical philosopher who fell back on an older form of physics.

Author : Patrick J. Boner
Publisher : Medieval and Early Modern Phil
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9004431632

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Kepler's New Star (1604) by Patrick J. Boner Pdf

"The supernova of 1604 marks a major turning point in the cosmological crisis of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Capturing the eyes and imagination of Europe, it ignited an explosion of ideas that forever changed the face of science. Variously interpreted as a comet or star, the new luminary brought together a broad network of scholars who debated the nature of the novelty and its origins in the universe. At the heart of the interdisciplinary discourse was Johannes Kepler, whose book On the New Star (1606) assessed the many disputes of the day. Beginning with several studies about Kepler's book, the authors of the present volume explore the place of Kepler and the 'new star' in early modern culture and religion, and how contemporary debate shaped the course of science down to the present day. Contributors are: (1) Dario Tessicini, (2) Christopher M. Graney, (3) Javier Luna, (4) Patrick J. Boner, (5) Jonathan Regier, (6) Aviva Rothman, (7) Miguel Á. Granada, (8) Pietro Daniel Omodeo, (9) Matteo Cosci, and (10) William P. Blair"--

Author : Judith Veronica Field
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226248232

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Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology by Judith Veronica Field Pdf

The work of Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), regarded by many as the founder of modern astronomy, is also historically important to the philosophy and methodology of science as a whole. While most studies of Kepler have concentrated on his astronomical work, particularly his laws describing the revolutions of the planets, the. V. Field focuses on one of Kepler's major preoccupations, his search for the geometrical plan according to which God created teh universe. She demonstrates how Kepler's cosmological theories, which embrace music and astrology as well as astronomy, relate to his other work. Drawing on the whole body of Kepler's writings, Field traces the impact of Plato, Euclid, and Proclus on his thinking, as well as the influence of his contemporaries Galileo and Robert Fludd. Kepler has suffered from a dual image as both hero of science and eccentric mystagogue. Field's sound scholarship provides a more complete picture of the man and his work that will be of value to historians of science, mathematics, philosophy, and the late Renaissance.

Author : Job Kozhamthadam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015032880406

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The Discovery of Kepler's Laws by Job Kozhamthadam Pdf

Johannes Kepler's discovery of the basic quantitative laws that describe planetary motion placed the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus on a sound mathematic basis and proved the way for Newton's work in the next century. In this balanced, clearly written book, Job Kazhamthadam, S.J., examines for the first time the religious, philosophical, and empirical factors that informed Kepler's thought and works and made his discovery possible.

Author : Alexandre Koyre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135028336

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The Astronomical Revolution by Alexandre Koyre Pdf

Originally published in English in 1973. This volume traces the development of the revolution which so drastically altered man’s view of the universe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The "astronomical revolution" was accomplished in three stages, each linked with the work of one man. With Copernicus, the sun became the centre of the universe. With Kepler, celestial dynamics replaced the kinematics of circles and spheres used by Copernicus. With Borelli the unification of celestial and terrestrial physics was completed by abandonment of the circle in favour the straight line to infinity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : OCLC:930739341

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The Birth of the History and Philosophy of Science : by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dr James Dougal Fleming
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781409478683

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The Invention of Discovery, 1500–1700 by Dr James Dougal Fleming Pdf

The early modern period used to be known as the Age of Discovery. More recently, it has been troped as an age of invention. But was the invention/discovery binary itself invented, or discovered? This volume investigates the possibility that it was invented, through a range of early modern knowledge practices, centered on the emergence of modern natural science. From Bacon to Galileo, from stagecraft to math, from martyrology to romance, contributors to this interdisciplinary collection examine the period's generation of discovery as an absolute and ostensibly neutral standard of knowledge-production. They further investigate the hermeneutic implications for the epistemological authority that tends, in modernity, still to be based on that standard. The Invention of Discovery, 1500–1700 is a set of attempts to think back behind discovery, considered as a decisive trope for modern knowledge.

Author : James R. Voelkel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691224015

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The Composition of Kepler's Astronomia nova by James R. Voelkel Pdf

This is one of the most important studies in decades on Johannes Kepler, among the towering figures in the history of astronomy. Drawing extensively on Kepler's correspondence and manuscripts, James Voelkel reveals that the strikingly unusual style of Kepler's magnum opus, Astronomia nova (1609), has been traditionally misinterpreted. Kepler laid forth the first two of his three laws of planetary motion in this work. Instead of a straightforward presentation of his results, however, he led readers on a wild goose chase, recounting the many errors and false starts he had experienced. This had long been deemed a ''confessional'' mirror of the daunting technical obstacles Kepler faced. As Voelkel amply demonstrates, it is not. Voelkel argues that Kepler's style can be understood only in the context of the circumstances in which the book was written. Starting with Kepler's earliest writings, he traces the development of the astronomer's ideas of how the planets were moved by a force from the sun and how this could be expressed mathematically. And he shows how Kepler's once broader research program was diverted to a detailed examination of the motion of Mars. Above all, Voelkel shows that Kepler was well aware of the harsh reception his work would receive--both from Tycho Brahe's heirs and from contemporary astronomers; and how this led him to an avowedly rhetorical pseudo-historical presentation of his results. In treating Kepler at last as a figure in time and not as independent of it, this work will be welcomed by historians of science, astronomers, and historians.

Author : Nicholas Jardine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1988-02-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521346991

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The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science by Nicholas Jardine Pdf

Nicholas Jardine offers here an edition and the first translation into English of Johannes Kepler's A Defence of Tycho against Ursus. He accompanies this with essays on the provenance of the treatise - the circumstances which provoked Kepler to write it, an analysis of its strategy, style and historical sources and of the contents of Ursus' Treatise on Astronomical Hypotheses to which Kepler was replying. Dr Jardine also provides three extended interpretive essays on the intrinsic interest and historical significance of the work.

Author : Carola Baumgardt
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781504068000

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Johannes Kepler by Carola Baumgardt Pdf

With an introduction by Albert Einstein: The collected letters of the Renaissance astronomer who discovered the laws of planetary motion. Astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler made major contributions to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. While his achievements are well-documented elsewhere, this volume of his personal correspondence offers a rare window into the life of a man who pursued knowledge through a dangerous and turbulent period of history. Spanning more than thirty years, from 1596 to the end of his life, Kepler’s letters reveal the internal conflicts of a devout Protestant who nevertheless opposed many pronouncements of the Church, an eminent man of science who was also swayed by astrology, and a contemporary of Galileo who served three succeeding Holy Roman Emperors.

Author : Walter William Bryant
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066070458

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Kepler by Walter William Bryant Pdf

Embark on a journey through the life and achievements of Johannes Kepler, one of the most influential astronomers in history, with "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant. Edited by Sydney Chapman, this biography delves deep into Kepler's groundbreaking contributions to astronomy and his revolutionary theories. Bryant's narrative, combined with Chapman's expert insights, makes this a must-read for anyone interested in the history of science and astronomy.