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Comets, popular culture, and the birth of modern cosmology /

In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner Genuth presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schechner, Sara, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1997.
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505 0 0 |t Shared culture, separate spaces --  |t Ancient signs --  |t Monsters and the Messiah --  |t Divination --  |t Portents and politics --  |t From natural signs to proximate causes --  |t The decline of cometary divination --  |t Comets, transmutations, and world reform in Newton's thought --  |t Halley's comet theory, Noah's flood, and the end of the world --  |t Refueling the sun and planets --  |t Revolution and evolution within the heavens --  |t Popular culture and elite science --  |t Recent resurgence of cometary catastrophism. 
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