Name: Measuring Shadows: Kepler's Optics of Invisibility (en Inglés)
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Author: Raz Chen-Morris
ISBN: 9780271070995

portada Measuring Shadows: Kepler's Optics of Invisibility (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Pennsylvania St Univ Pr

Autor

Raz Chen-Morris

Año

2017

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

264

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780271070995

Categorías

Siglo xvii - c. 1600-c. 1699
Historia general y del mundo

Measuring Shadows: Kepler's Optics of Invisibility (en Inglés)

Raz Chen-Morris (Autor) · Pennsylvania St Univ Pr · Tapa Blanda

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In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler’s 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 Kepler’s 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.