Author: Royal Society (London)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Author: Royal Society (London)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
An Elementary Course of Mathematics
Author: Harvey Goodwin (Bishop of Carlisle.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Principles of Mechanics ... The fourth edition
Author: James WOOD (Dean of Ely.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Bookseller's catalogues
Author: J. and J.J. DeightonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Quarterly Review (London)
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the University of London, Including the Libraries of G. Grote and A. De Morgan (mainly Compiled by T. Nichols).
Author: University of LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Measuring Shadows
Author: Raz Chen-MorrisPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271077336
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
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.
