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.
No detailed description available for "Measuring Shadows".
9780271077338
Geometrical optics-History.
Science-Philosophy-History-17th century.
Science, Renaissance.
Electronic books.
QC380 / .C446 2016
535/.32
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.
No detailed description available for "Measuring Shadows".
9780271077338
Geometrical optics-History.
Science-Philosophy-History-17th century.
Science, Renaissance.
Electronic books.
QC380 / .C446 2016
535/.32