Author: Increase Mather
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Κομητογραφια. Or a discourse concerning Comets ... as also two Sermons occasioned by the late blazing stars
Author: Increase Mather
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Κομητογραφια. Or a discourse concerning Comets ... as also two Sermons occasioned by the late blazing stars
Author: Increase Mather
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Kometographia, Or a Discourse Concerning Comets
Author: Increase Mather
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
Author: Sara Schechner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691227675
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691227675
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.
A Discourse concerning Comets ... and the ... earthquakes, famines and wars attending their appearance, from the beginning of the world, etc
Author: Increase Mather
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley
Author: George Brinley
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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De Cometis: Or, A Discourse of the Natures and Effects of Comets, as They are Philosophically, Historically & Astrologically Considered
Author: John Gadbury
Publisher:
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Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Publisher:
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Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
For the statement above quoted, also for full bibliographical information regarding this publication, and for the contents of the volumes [1st ser.] v. 1- 7th series, v. 5, cf. Griffin, Bibl. of Amer. hist. society. 2d edition, 1907, p. 346-360.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
For the statement above quoted, also for full bibliographical information regarding this publication, and for the contents of the volumes [1st ser.] v. 1- 7th series, v. 5, cf. Griffin, Bibl. of Amer. hist. society. 2d edition, 1907, p. 346-360.
Early English Books, 1641-1700
Author: University Microfilms International
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
ISBN: 9780835721011
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
ISBN: 9780835721011
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Enchanted Europe
Author: Euan Cameron
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199257825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Enchanted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of Europe's long, complex relationship with its own folklore and popular religion. From debates over the efficacy of charms and spells, to belief in fairies and demons, Euan Cameron constructs a compelling narrative of the rise and fall of 'superstition' in the European mind.
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199257825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Enchanted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of Europe's long, complex relationship with its own folklore and popular religion. From debates over the efficacy of charms and spells, to belief in fairies and demons, Euan Cameron constructs a compelling narrative of the rise and fall of 'superstition' in the European mind.