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Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : History
ISBN : 0674171039
An account of the Copernican Revolution, focusing on the significance of the plurality of the revolution which encompassed not only mathematical astronomy, but also conceptual changes in cosmology, physics, philosophy, and religion.
Author : Michael J. Crowe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486315591
Revised edition re-creates the change from an earth- to a sun-centered conception of the solar system by focusing on an examination of the evidence available in 1615.
Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674417472
For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical problem can alter our basic thought processes and attitudes. Understanding the processes which underlay the Revolution gives us a perspective, in this scientific age, from which to evaluate our own beliefs more intelligently. With a constant keen awareness of the inseparable mixture of its technical, philosophical, and humanistic elements, Thomas S. Kuhn displays the full scope of the Copernican Revolution as simultaneously an episode in the internal development of astronomy, a critical turning point in the evolution of scientific thought, and a crisis in Western man’s concept of his relation to the universe and to God. The book begins with a description of the first scientific cosmology developed by the Greeks. Mr. Kuhn thus prepares the way for a continuing analysis of the relation between theory and observation and belief. He describes the many functions—astronomical, scientific, and nonscientific—of the Greek concept of the universe, concentrating especially on the religious implications. He then treats the intellectual, social, and economic developments which nurtured Copernicus’ break with traditional astronomy. Although many of these developments, including scholastic criticism of Aristotle’s theory of motion and the Renaissance revival of Neoplatonism, lie entirely outside of astronomy, they increased the flexibility of the astronomer’s imagination. That new flexibility is apparent in the work of Copernicus, whose De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is discussed in detail both for its own significance and as a representative scientific innovation. With a final analysis of Copernicus’ life work—its reception and its contribution to a new scientific concept of the universe—Mr. Kuhn illuminates both the researches that finally made the heliocentric arrangement work, and the achievements in physics and metaphysics that made the planetary earth an integral part of Newtonian science. These are the developments that once again provided man with a coherent and self-consistent conception of the universe and of his own place in it. This is a book for any reader interested in the evolution of ideas and, in particular, in the curious interplay of hypothesis and experiment which is the essence of modern science. Says James Bryant Conant in his Foreword: “Professor Kuhn’s handling of the subject merits attention, for...he points the way to the road which must be followed if science is to be assimilated into the culture of our times.”
Author : K. Brad Wray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108498296
"One might wonder if there is anything new to say about Thomas Kuhn and his views on science. Scholarship on Kuhn, though, has changed dramatically in the last 20 years. This is so for a number reasons"--
Author : Copernicus,Marika Taylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781804175712
Controversial at the time, Copernicus's discoveries led to the scientific revolution, and a greater understanding of our place in the universe. An accessible, abridged edition with a new introduction. Renaissance Natural philosopher Nicolaus Copernicus's pioneering discovery of the heliocentric nature of the solar system is one of the few identifiable moments in history that define the understanding of the nature of all things. His great work was the consequence of long observation and resulted in the first stage of the Scientific Revolution by correctly positing that the earth and other planets of the solar system revolved around the sun. Not only did this promote further study to understand the place of humanity in the world and the universe, it questioned the authority of the organised Christian Church in the West to be the keeper of fundamental truths. Ultimately this would lead to the Enlightenment, and the separation of religion, government and science. The FLAME TREE Foundations series features core publications which together have shaped the cultural landscape of the modern world, with cutting-edge research distilled into pocket guides designed to be both accessible and informative.
Author : Rivka Feldhay,F. Jamil Ragep
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780773550117
In 1984, Noel Swerdlow and Otto Neugebauer argued that Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) explained planetary motion by using mathematical devices and astronomical models originally developed by Islamic astronomers in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Was this a parallel development, or did Copernicus somehow learn of the work of his predecessors, and if so, how? And if Copernicus did use material from the Islamic world, how then should we understand the European context of his innovative cosmology? Although Copernicus’s work has been subject to a number of excellent studies, there has been little attention paid to the sources and diverse cultures that might have inspired him. Foregrounding the importance of interactions between Islamic and European astronomers and philosophers, Before Copernicus explores the multi-cultural, multi-religious, and multi-lingual context of learning on the eve of the Copernican revolution, determining the relationship between Copernicus and his predecessors. Essays by Christopher Celenza and Nancy Bisaha delve into the European cultural and intellectual contexts of the fifteenth century, revealing both the profound differences between “them” and “us,” and the nascent attitudes that would mark the turn to modernity. Michael Shank, F. Jamil Ragep, Sally Ragep, and Robert Morrison depict the vibrant and creative work of astronomers in the Christian, Islamic, and Jewish worlds. In other essays, Rivka Feldhay, Raz Chen-Morris, and Edith Sylla demonstrate the importance of shifting outlooks that were critical for the emergence of a new worldview. Highlighting the often-neglected intercultural exchange between Islam and early modern Europe, Before Copernicus reimagines the scientific revolution in a global context.
Author : Nicholas Copernicus,Rosen,Jerzy Dobrzycki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781349017768
Author : A. Bala
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230601215
Arun Bala challenges Eurocentric conceptions of history by showing how Chinese, Indian, Arabic, and ancient Egyptian ideas in philosophy, mathematics, cosmology and physics played an indispensable role in making possible the birth of modern science.
Author : J. L. Heilbron,Professor of the History of Science John L Heilbron
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674038486
Between 1650 and 1750, four Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Built to fix an unquestionable date for Easter, they also housed instruments that threw light on the disputed geometry of the solar system, and so, within sight of the altar, subverted Church doctrine about the order of the universe. A tale of politically canny astronomers and cardinals with a taste for mathematics, "The Sun in the Church" tells how these observatories came to be, how they worked, and what they accomplished. It describes Galileo's political overreaching, his subsequent trial for heresy, and his slow and steady rehabilitation in the eyes of the Catholic Church. And it offers an enlightening perspective on astronomy, Church history, and religious architecture, as well as an analysis of measurements testing the limits of attainable accuracy, undertaken with rudimentary means and extraordinary zeal. Above all, the book illuminates the niches protected and financed by the Catholic Church in which science and mathematics thrived. Superbly written, "The Sun in the Church" provides a magnificent corrective to long-standing oversimplified accounts of the hostility between science and religion.
Author : Hans Blumenberg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262022672
This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity.
Author : Todd Timberlake,Paul Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107182295
Details the science behind the Copernican Revolution, the transition from the Earth-centered cosmos to a modern understanding of planetary orbits.
Author : Dava Sobel
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781408822388
The bestselling author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter tells the story of Nicolaus Copernicus and the revolution in astronomy that changed the world.
Author : I. Dilman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230599017
Wittgenstein's Copernican Revolution is concerned with how one is to conceive of the relation between language and reality without embracing Linguistic Realism and without courting any form of Linguistic Idealism either. It argues that this is precisely what Wittgenstein does and also examines some well known contemporary philosophers who have been concerned with this same question.
Author : Ermanno Bencivenga
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015012190883
In this highly original and wide-ranging discourse on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Bencivenga fully reveals how this seminal work embodies a universal conceptual revolution.
Author : Jean Laplanche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942254156