Measuring Shadows

Kepler's Optics of Invisibility

Autor: Raz Chen-Morris

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Editura: Pennsylvania State University Press

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"In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Keplerżs Optics is essenti...

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Raz Chen-Morris

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engleză

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Publicat

2016

Pagini

264

EAN

9780271070988

ISBN

9780271070988

Enbook ID

01007008

Editura

Pennsylvania State University Press

Greutate

544

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 38

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"In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Keplerżs Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Keplerżs radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how the seventeenth-century astronomer posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge. Chen-Morris reveals how Keplerżs ideas about the formation of images on the retina and the geometrics of the camera obscura, as well as his astronomical observations, advanced the argument that physical reality could only be described through artificially produced shadows, reflections, and refractions. Breaking from medieval and Renaissance traditions that insisted upon direct sensory perception, Kepler advocated for instruments as mediators between the eye and physical reality, and for mathematical language to describe motion. It was only through this kind of knowledge, he argued, that observation could produce certainty about the heavens. Not only was this conception of visibility crucial to advancing the early modern understanding of vision and the retina, but it affected how people during that period approached and understood the world around them.

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