Measuring Shadows: Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility - Tapa dura

Chen-Morris, Raz

 
9780271070988: Measuring Shadows: Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility
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ISBN 10: 0271070986 ISBN 13: 9780271070988
Editorial: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016

Sinopsis

In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler’s radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how the seventeenth-century astronomer posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge. Chen-Morris reveals how Kepler’s ideas about the formation of images on the retina and the geometrics of the camera obscura, as well as his astronomical observations, advanced the argument that physical reality could only be described through artificially produced shadows, reflections, and refractions.

Breaking from medieval and Renaissance traditions that insisted upon direct sensory perception, Kepler advocated for instruments as mediators between the eye and physical reality, and for mathematical language to describe motion. It was only through this kind of knowledge, he argued, that observation could produce certainty about the heavens. Not only was this conception of visibility crucial to advancing the early modern understanding of vision and the retina, but it affected how people during that period approached and understood the world around them.

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Raz Chen-Morris is Senior Lecturer in History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Editorial
Pennsylvania State University Press
Año de publicación
2016
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0271070986
ISBN 13 
9780271070988
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Número de páginas
264
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