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.
General
Imprint: |
Pennsylvania State University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2016 |
Authors: |
Raz Chen-Morris
(Senior Lecturer)
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 38mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
264 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-271-07098-8 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-271-07098-6 |
Barcode: |
9780271070988 |
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