LEADER 04142nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910457023503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-45848-5 010 $a9786612458484 010 $a1-4008-3109-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400831098 035 $a(CKB)2550000000002571 035 $a(EBL)483569 035 $a(OCoLC)609896870 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000362195 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11262504 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000362195 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10364020 035 $a(PQKB)10373550 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC483569 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36423 035 $a(DE-B1597)446161 035 $a(OCoLC)1004881391 035 $a(OCoLC)1054881716 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400831098 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL483569 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10364731 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL245848 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000002571 100 $a20000322d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aKepler's philosophy and the new astronomy$b[electronic resource] /$fRhonda Martens 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (216 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-05069-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tFigures and Tables -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations of Works Frequently Cited -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Kepler's Life and Times -- $t2. The Mysterium cosmographicum and Kepler's Early Approach to Natural Philosophy -- $t3. Kepler's Apologia: An Early Modern Treatise on Realism -- $t4. Kepler's Archetypes and the Astronomia nova -- $t5. The Aristotelian Kepler -- $t6. The Harmonice mundi -- $t7. The Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae: Kepler's Mature Physical Astronomy -- $tConclusion The Fate of Kepler's Philosophical Thought -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aJohannes Kepler contributed importantly to every field he addressed. He changed the face of astronomy by abandoning principles that had been in place for two millennia, made important discoveries in optics and mathematics, and was an uncommonly good philosopher. Generally, however, Kepler's philosophical ideas have been dismissed as irrelevant and even detrimental to his legacy of scientific accomplishment. Here, Rhonda Martens offers the first extended study of Kepler's philosophical views and shows how those views helped him construct and justify the new astronomy. Martens notes that since Kepler became a Copernican before any empirical evidence supported Copernicus over the entrenched Ptolemaic system, his initial reasons for preferring Copernicanism were not telescope observations but rather methodological and metaphysical commitments. Further, she shows that Kepler's metaphysics supported the strikingly modern view of astronomical method that led him to discover the three laws of planetary motion and to wed physics and astronomy--a key development in the scientific revolution. By tracing the evolution of Kepler's thought in his astronomical, metaphysical, and epistemological works, Martens explores the complex interplay between changes in his philosophical views and the status of his astronomical discoveries. She shows how Kepler's philosophy paved the way for the discovery of elliptical orbits and provided a defense of physical astronomy's methodological soundness. In doing so, Martens demonstrates how an empirical discipline was inspired and profoundly shaped by philosophical assumptions. 606 $aAstronomy 606 $aKepler's laws 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAstronomy. 615 0$aKepler's laws. 676 $a520.92 686 $aCE 6817$2rvk 700 $aMartens$b Rhonda$f1964-$066752 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457023503321 996 $aKepler's philosophy and the new astronomy$9377445 997 $aUNINA