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Kepler's New Star (1604) Context and Controversy.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boner, Patrick J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2020.
Colección:Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Straight Paths and Evanescent Bodies: The Physics and Dynamics of Celestial Novelties in Kepler's De stella nova
  • Chapter 2 Of Mites and Men (and Stars): Kepler on the Question of Star Sizes in De stella nova
  • Chapter 3 The Measure of the Universe in De stella nova
  • Chapter 4 Celestial Novelty and the Science of the Stars: Kepler vs. Krabbe on Accuracy and Authority in Early Modern Germany
  • Chapter 5 Stars, Crystals and Courts: Johannes Kepler and Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt
  • Chapter 6 Kepler's Astrological Play
  • Chapter 7 The Nova of 1600 in Cygnus and the Christianization of the Constellations
  • Chapter 8 Epicurean Astronomy? Atomistic and Corpuscular Stars in Kepler's Century
  • Chapter 9 The Correspondence of Clavius, Dal Monte, Magini and Other Italian Astronomers on the Nova of 1604
  • Chapter 10 The Scientific Legacy of Kepler's 'Stella Nova'
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Persons
  • Index of Places