Measuring shadows : Kepler's optics of invisibility /

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"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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chen-Morris, Raz (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Kepler, Johannes, > 1571-1630. > Ad Vitellionem paralipomena quibus astronomiae pars optica traditur.
1600-1699
Geometrical optics > History.
Science, Renaissance.
Science > Philosophy > History > 17th century.
Optique géométrique > Histoire.
Sciences de la Renaissance.
SCIENCE > Physics > Optics & Light.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Geometrical optics
Science > Philosophy
Science, Renaissance
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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