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Measuring Shadows : Kepler's Optics of Invisibility.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (263 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271077338
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Measuring ShadowsDDC classification:
  • 535/.32
LOC classification:
  • QC380 .C446 2016
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Contents:
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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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