Author: AristotelisPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5872589042
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 933
Book Description
Opera Omnia
Author: AristotelisPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5872589042
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 933
Book Description
Kepler
Author: Max CasparPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486151751
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Definitive biography covers Kepler's scientific accomplishments — laws of planetary motion, work with calculus, optics, more — plus public and personal life, more. Introduction and Notes by Owen Gingerich.
Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
Author: Sara SchechnerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691227675
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner 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 of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.
A New Review
Author: Mathematical Book Histories
Author: Philip BeeleyPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031326105
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Catalogue of the Mathematical, Historical Bibliographical and Miscellaneous Portion of the Celebrated Library ... Apr. 26, 1861 ...
Author: Guillaume LibriCatalogue of the Mathematical, Historical and Miscellaneous Portion of the Celebrated Library of M. Guglielmo Libri ..
Author: Catalogue of the Mathematical, Historical, Bibliographical and Miscellaneous Portion of the Celebrated Library of M. Guglielmo Libri
Author: Guillaume LibriCatalogue... Unknown Block-books ; Specimens of Carly Typography and Art... Manuscripts Et Books with Autograph Notes... Guillaume Libri
Author: Auction catalogue, books of Guglielmo Libri, 25 April to 8 May 1861
Author: S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (London)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description