02512nam 2200577 450 991079814740332120230124193623.00-271-07733-610.1515/9780271077338(CKB)3710000000632920(SSID)ssj0001640047(PQKBManifestationID)16398901(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001640047(PQKBWorkID)12331791(PQKB)11711150(OCoLC)945976759(MdBmJHUP)muse55725(MiAaPQ)EBC6224368(DE-B1597)583842(OCoLC)1269268851(DE-B1597)9780271077338(EXLCZ)99371000000063292020200929d2016 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrMeasuring shadows Kepler's optics of invisibility /Raz Chen-MorrisUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :The Pennsylvania State University Press,2016.1 online resource (xi, 247 pages :)illustrations ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-271-07098-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.The new optical narrative : light, camera obscura, and the astronomer's wings -- "Seeing with my own eyes" : introducing the new foundations of scientific knowledge -- The content of Kepler's visual language : abstraction, representation, and recognition -- "Non tanquam pictor, sed tanquam mathematicus" : Kepler's pictures and the art of painting -- Reading the book of nature : allegories, emblems, and geometrical diagrams -- Nothing and the ends of Renaissance science."Focusing on the astronomer Johannes Kepler's 1604 treatise on optics, explores Kepler's radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how he posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge in the early modern period"--Provided by publisher.Geometrical opticsHistorySciencePhilosophyHistory17th centuryScience, RenaissanceGeometrical opticsHistory.SciencePhilosophyHistoryScience, Renaissance.535/.32Chen-Morris Raz1536705MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798147403321Measuring shadows3785600UNINA