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Measuring Shadows : Kepler's Optics of Invisibility.

Chen-Morris, Raz.

Measuring Shadows : Kepler's Optics of Invisibility. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (263 pages)

COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The New Optical Narrative: Light, Camera Obscura, and the Astronomer's Wings -- Chapter 2: "Seeing with My Own Eyes": Introducing the New Foundations of Scientific Knowledge -- Chapter 3: The Content of Kepler's Visual Language: Abstraction, Representation, and Recognition -- Chapter 4: "Non Tanquam Pictor, Sed Tanquam Mathematicus": Kepler's Pictures and the Art of Painting -- Chapter 5: Reading the Book of Nature: Allegories, Emblems, and Geometrical Diagrams -- Chapter 6: Nothing and the Ends of Renaissance Science -- Postscript: "Making Nothing All" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- COVER Back.

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9780271077338


Geometrical optics-History.
Science-Philosophy-History-17th century.
Science, Renaissance.


Electronic books.

QC380 / .C446 2016

535/.32

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