Measuring shadows : Kepler's optics of invisibility / Raz Chen-Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chen-Morris, Raz, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630. Ad Vitellionem paralipomena quibus astronomiae pars optica traditur.

Kepler, Johannes.

Geometrical optics--History.

Geometrical optics.

Science--Philosophy--History--17th century.

Science.

Science, Renaissance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 247 pages :) illustrations ;

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271077338

0271077336

OCLC:

945976759