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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schechner, Sara, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1997.
Subjects:
Comets.
Cosmology.
Religion and science.
Superstition.
Meteoroids > history
Superstitions
Astronomy > history
Religion and Science
Comètes.
Cosmologie.
Religion et sciences.
Superstitions.
cosmology.
SCIENCE > Astronomy.
Comets
Cosmology
Religion and science
Superstition
Kometen.
Volksgeloof.
Kosmologie.
Ideeëngeschiedenis.
COMETS.
COSMOLOGY.
SCIENCE.
ASTRONOMY.
Comets > Research > History.
Mécanique céleste > 17e siècle.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Shared culture, separate spaces
  • Ancient signs
  • Monsters and the Messiah
  • Divination
  • Portents and politics
  • From natural signs to proximate causes
  • The decline of cometary divination
  • Comets, transmutations, and world reform in Newton's thought
  • Halley's comet theory, Noah's flood, and the end of the world
  • Refueling the sun and planets
  • Revolution and evolution within the heavens
  • Popular culture and elite science
  • Recent resurgence of cometary catastrophism.

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