Language: English
Published by University of Chicago Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 022621298X ISBN 13: 9780226212982
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
Condition: New. Presents a fresh perspective on the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Instead of celebrating the triumph of reason and rationality, the authors study the paradoxes and anxieties that stemmed from the New Science and the intellectual compromi.
Gebunden. Condition: New. 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.