Download or read book Kepler s Cosmological Synthesis written by Patrick J. Boner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cosmology of Johannes Kepler remains a mystery. On the one hand, Kepler’s speculations on spiritual faculties are seen as the remnants of Renaissance philosophy. On the other, his comparison of the cosmos to a clock summons the mechanical metaphor that shaped modern science. This book explores the inseparable connections between Kepler’s vitalistic views and his more enduring accomplishments in astronomy. The key argument is that Kepler’s ‘celestial biology’ served as a bridge between his revolutionary astronomy and other ‘less scientific’ interests, particularly astrology. Kepler's Cosmological Synthesis sheds new light on one of the foundational figures of the Scientific Revolution. By uncovering a new form of coherence in Kepler’s world picture, it traces the unlikely intersections of mechanism and vitalism that transformed the fabric of the heavens.

Download or read book Kepler s New Star 1604 written by Patrick J. Boner and published by Medieval and Early Modern Phil. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The supernova of 1604 marks a major turning point in the cosmological crisis of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Capturing the eyes and imagination of Europe, it ignited an explosion of ideas that forever changed the face of science. Variously interpreted as a comet or star, the new luminary brought together a broad network of scholars who debated the nature of the novelty and its origins in the universe. At the heart of the interdisciplinary discourse was Johannes Kepler, whose book On the New Star (1606) assessed the many disputes of the day. Beginning with several studies about Kepler's book, the authors of the present volume explore the place of Kepler and the 'new star' in early modern culture and religion, and how contemporary debate shaped the course of science down to the present day. Contributors are: (1) Dario Tessicini, (2) Christopher M. Graney, (3) Javier Luna, (4) Patrick J. Boner, (5) Jonathan Regier, (6) Aviva Rothman, (7) Miguel Á. Granada, (8) Pietro Daniel Omodeo, (9) Matteo Cosci, and (10) William P. Blair"--

Download or read book The Astronomer the Witch written by Ulinka Rublack and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Astronomer and the Witch, Ulinka Rublack pieces together the tale of this extraordinary episode in Kepler's life, one that takes us to the heart of his changing world.

Download or read book Unifying Heaven and Earth Essays in the History of Early Modern Cosmology written by Miguel Á. Granada and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most significant events in the history of Western civilization was the cosmological revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries. Among the most salient factors in this change, described by Alexandre Koyré as the ‘destruction of the cosmos’ inherited from ancient Greece, were Copernican heliocentrism and the substitution of a homogeneous universe for the hierarchical cosmos of the Platonic and Aristotelian tradition. Starting with a new approach to the issue of the presence of Islamic astronomical devices in Copernicus’ work and a thorough reappraisal of the cosmological views of Paracelsus, the book deals mainly with the abolition of cosmological dualism and the ways in which it affected the decline of astrology over the 17th century. Other related topics include planetary order and theories of world harmony, the cause of planetary motion in the Tychonic world system or the discussion on comets in Germany through the first presentation of a manuscript treatise by Michael Maestlin on the great comet of 1618.

Download or read book Kepler s New Star 1604 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining the pressing questions the supernova of 1604 prompted, Kepler’s New Star traces the enduring impact of Kepler and his star on the course of modern science.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences written by Dana Jalobeanu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-27 with total page 2267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia offers a fresh, integrated and creative perspective on the formation and foundations of philosophy and science in European modernity. Combining careful contextual reconstruction with arguments from traditional philosophy, the book examines methodological dimensions, breaks down traditional oppositions such as rationalism vs. empiricism, calls attention to gender issues, to ‘insiders and outsiders’, minor figures in philosophy, and underground movements, among many other topics. In addition, and in line with important recent transformations in the fields of history of science and early modern philosophy, the volume recognizes the specificity and significance of early modern science and discusses important developments including issues of historiography (such as historical epistemology), the interplay between the material culture and modes of knowledge, expert knowledge and craft knowledge. This book stands at the crossroads of different disciplines and combines their approaches – particularly the history of science, the history of philosophy, contemporary philosophy of science, and intellectual and cultural history. It brings together over 100 philosophers, historians of science, historians of mathematics, and medicine offering a comprehensive view of early modern philosophy and the sciences. It combines and discusses recent results from two very active fields: early modern philosophy and the history of (early modern) science. Editorial Board EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Dana Jalobeanu University of Bucharest, Romania Charles T. Wolfe Ghent University, Belgium ASSOCIATE EDITORS Delphine Bellis University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Zvi Biener University of Cincinnati, OH, USA Angus Gowland University College London, UK Ruth Hagengruber University of Paderborn, Germany Hiro Hirai Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Martin Lenz University of Groningen, The Netherlands Gideon Manning CalTech, Pasadena, CA, USA Silvia Manzo University of La Plata, Argentina Enrico Pasini University of Turin, Italy Cesare Pastorino TU Berlin, Germany Lucian Petrescu Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Justin E. H. Smith University de Paris Diderot, France Marius Stan Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA Koen Vermeir CNRS-SPHERE + Université de Paris, France Kirsten Walsh University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Download or read book The Absolute Relevancy of Singularity Investigating Kepler As a Thesis written by Peet Schutte and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Universe is built by a cosmic discipline I named the Cosmic Code and it was set to figures in the study Kepler formulated as a3 = T2k. Taking these figures I found the Universe forms gravity by a process that forms P....why does it grow from small to large...All the above phenomena science are unable to explain. Every one in science throughout many centuries ignored Johannes Kepler because all saw him as some derogative of Newton...until now. Kepler introduced space -time but nobody took the time to acknowledge Kepler's introduction. Kepler introduced space a3 - time T2k and showed that it is space a3 - time T2k that is performing gravity by relevance of k. Is our centuries long ignoring of Kepler truly the answer...Kepler introduced gravity by principle but no one in four hundred years took any notice of the manner in which Kepler brought gravity into human conception and understanding. Kepler calculated that it is the motion of space a3 during the time T2k that forms the gravity that is keeping the sun and all the individual planets apart but moreover gravity is keeping the planets in orbit. Gravity is the effort of independent objects to secure their position as the centre of the Universe by motion of space in space in relation to space by moving through space. I use Kepler to prove science because Nature proves Kepler and Kepler is annihilating Newton at every instant of science. All Kepler's charts prove one thing and that is that space a3 moves T2k. All space moves because the Universe is constantly changing form and formations as time forms and alters space. While moving outer space expands bringing about movement and material within combined structures such as stars contracts by spinning motion which is gravity, which is the opposite form of the expanding movement we find that outer space produces.The Universe is formed by heat that we call light and light is dark when it moves away from us (expanding or becoming bigger thus moving further apart and by that it is drawing visible light inwards) and light is bright when it moves towards us (concentrating by gravitational contraction because contraction makes the light denser) but everything in the Universe is a form of heat. I show that in the Universe there are two substances filling the Universe. The Entirety of the Universe is about the relevance of density variation. Individual movement of material occupying specific space is forming density in relevance to all other material moving at various but specific speeds and the faster any atom or material moves, the denser form the movement will make the material to be. Seeing relevancies apply in the picture above it is not the mass that increases but it is the density of the material within the star that increase by claiming less space to hold more material in an denser environment. As cosmic gas or also known as outer space expands it moves slower while the density decreases. The increase of the density of stars reducing space wile becoming denser with more material in less space comes about by more material within less space spinning faster because of reduced space bringing about faster circling of material within a smaller confined space. In contras outer space again is moving slower because the space increases through expanding and more space moves slower. This puts the applying relevance on material to move faster in relation to outer space moving slower and thus material becomes denser as it moves faster while it is in ratio with outer space expanding and thus moving slower. This ratio allows material to move faster and then contract more space in the form of heat from outer space, which is filled with non-material heat. As material compact it absorbs heat from outer space that loses density. That secures material growth and by reducing density secures outer space expanding.

Download or read book Kepler Problem in the Presence of Dark Energy and the Cosmic Local Flow written by Alexander Silbergleit and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book derives and analyzes all solutions to the Kepler problem with dark energy (DE), presenting significant results such as: (a) all radial infinite motions obey Hubble’s law at large times; (b) all orbital infinite motions are asymptotically radial and obey Hubble’s law; (c) infinite orbital motions strongly dominate the finite ones. This clearly shows the effect of repulsive DE: In the classical Kepler problem, all orbital motions are finite for negative energies and infinite in the opposite case. Another DE effect is spatial localization of bounded orbits: mostly, they are within the equilibrium sphere, where the attractive Newtonian force outbalances the repulsive force of DE. This problem is of particular current interest due to recent studies of the local flows of galaxies showing domination of DE in their dynamics; the book discusses this observation in detail.

Download or read book Vegetative Powers written by Fabrizio Baldassarri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, and reproduction. While principally focusing on the early modern approaches to the lower functions of the soul, readers will discover the roots of these approaches back to the Ancient times, as the volume highlights the role of three strands that help shape the study of life in the Medieval and early modern natural philosophies. From late antiquity to the early modern period, the vegetative soul and its cognate concepts have played a substantial role in specifying life, living functions, and living bodies, sometimes blurring the line between living and non-living nature, and, at other moments, resulting in a strong restriction of life to a mechanical system of operations and powers. Unearthing the history of the vegetative soul as a shrub of interconnected concepts, the 24 contributions of the volume fill a crucial gap in scholarship, ultimately outlining the importance of vegetal processes of incessant proliferation, generation, and organic growth as the roots of life in natural philosophical interpretations.

Download or read book Jesuit Astrology written by Luís Campos Ribeiro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connections between the Society of Jesus and astrology used to appear as unexpected at best. Astrology was never viewed favourably by the Church, especially in early modern times, and since Jesuits were strong defenders of Catholic orthodoxy, most historians assumed that their religious fervour would be matched by an equally strong rejection of astrology. This groundbreaking and compelling study brings to light new Jesuit scientific texts revealing a much more positive, practical, and nuanced attitude. What emerges forcefully is a totally new perspective into early modern Jesuit culture, science, and education, highlighting the element that has been long overlooked: astrology.

Download or read book Cosmology in the Early Modern Age A Web of Ideas written by Paolo Bussotti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the history and epistemology of early modern cosmology. The authors reconstruct the development of cosmological ideas in the age of ‘scientific revolution’ from Copernicus to Leibniz, taking into account the growth of a unified celestial-and-terrestrial mechanics. The volume investigates how, in the rise of the new science, cosmology displayed deep and multifaceted interrelations between scientific notions (stemming from mechanics, mathematics, geometry, astronomy) and philosophical concepts. These were employed to frame a general picture of the universe, as well as to criticize and interpret scientific notions and observational data. This interdisciplinary work reconstructs a conceptual web pervaded by various intellectual attitudes and drives. It presents an historical–epistemological unified itinerary which includes Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Huygens, Newton and Leibniz. For each of the scientists and philosophers, a presentation and commentary is made of their cosmological views, and where relevant, outlines of their most relevant physical concepts are given. Furthermore, the authors highlight the philosophical and epistemological implications of their scientific works. This work is helpful both as a synthetic overview of early modern cosmology, and an analytical exposition of the elements that were intertwined in early-modern cosmology. This book addresses historians, philosophers, and scientists and can also be used as a research source book by post-graduate students in epistemology, history of science and history of philosophy.

Download or read book Natural Philosophy written by Alister McGrath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering the forgotten discipline of Natural Philosophy for the modern world This book argues for the retrieval of 'natural philosophy', a concept that faded into comparative obscurity as individual scientific disciplines became established and institutionalized. Natural philosophy was understood in the early modern period as a way of exploring the human relationship with the natural world, encompassing what would now be seen as the distinct disciplines of the natural sciences, mathematics, music, philosophy, and theology. The first part of the work represents a critical conversation with the tradition, identifying the essential characteristics of natural philosophy, particularly its emphasis on both learning about and learning from nature. After noting the factors which led to the disintegration of natural philosophy during the nineteenth century, the second part of the work sets out the reasons why natural philosophy should be retrieved, and a creative and innovative proposal for how this might be done. This draws on Karl Popper's 'Three Worlds' and Mary Midgley's notion of using multiple maps in bringing together the many aspects of the human encounter with the natural world. Such a retrieved or 're-imagined' natural philosophy is able to encourage both human attentiveness and respectfulness towards Nature, while enfolding both the desire to understand the natural world, and the need to preserve the affective, imaginative, and aesthetic aspects of the human response to nature.

Download or read book Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution written by Dennis Danielson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings John Milton's Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo, whom Milton met and admired: a universe encompassing space travel, an earth that participates vibrantly in the cosmic dance, and stars that are "world[s] / Of destined habitation." Milton's bold depiction of our universe as merely a small part of a larger multiverse allows the removal of hell from the center of the earth to a location in the primordial abyss. In this wide-ranging work, Dennis Danielson lucidly unfolds early modern cosmological debates, engaging not only Galileo but also Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, and the English Copernicans, thus placing Milton at a rich crossroads of epic poetry and the history of science.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Cosmology Routledge Revivals written by Norriss S. Hetherington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Cosmology, first published in 1993, recounts the history, philosophical assumptions, methodological ambiguities, and human struggles that have influenced the various responses to the basic questions of cosmology through the ages, as well as referencing important scientific theories. Just as the recognition of social conventions in other cultures can lead to a more productive perspective on our own behaviour, so too a study of the cosmologies of other times and places can enable us recognise elements of our own cosmology that might otherwise pass as inevitable developments. Apart from modern natural science, therefore, this volume incorporates brief treatments of Native American, Cave-Dweller, Chinese, Egyptian, Islamic, Megalithic, Mesopotamian, Greek, Medieval and Copernican cosmology, leading to an appreciation of cosmology as an intellectual creation, not merely a collection of facts. It is a valuable reference tool for any student or academic with an interest in the history of science and cosmology specifically.

Download or read book The Pursuit of Harmony written by Aviva Rothman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A committed Lutheran excommunicated from his own church, a friend to Catholics and Calvinists alike, a layman who called himself a “priest of God,” a Copernican in a world where Ptolemy still reigned, a man who argued at the same time for the superiority of one truth and the need for many truths to coexist—German astronomer Johannes Kepler was, to say the least, a complicated figure. With The Pursuit of Harmony, Aviva Rothman offers a new view of him and his achievements, one that presents them as a story of Kepler’s attempts to bring different, even opposing ideas and circumstances into harmony. Harmony, Rothman shows, was both the intellectual bedrock for and the primary goal of Kepler’s disparate endeavors. But it was also an elusive goal amid the deteriorating conditions of his world, as the political order crumbled and religious war raged. In the face of that devastation, Kepler’s hopes for his theories changed: whereas he had originally looked for a unifying approach to truth, he began instead to emphasize harmony as the peaceful coexistence of different views, one that could be fueled by the fundamentally nonpartisan discipline of mathematics.

Download or read book Cosmology written by Norriss S. Hetherington and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of contributions examining cosmology from multiple perspectives. It presents articles on traditional Native American and Chinese cosmologies and traces the historical roots of western cosmology from Mesopotamia and pre-Socratic Greece to medieval cosmology.

Download or read book The Dissertation on Kepler written by Peet Schutte and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As long as everybody thinks science is more perfect than God Almighty (and I am not trying to be sacrilegious but just truthful because that is the image science portrays) there is no need for the work I present since there then is no need to scrutinise, that which is perfect. As long as everybody goes around with the concept that science is beyond reproach and is as truthful as religion should be no one will take note about the need or indeed the urgency that my work present but science is in dyer need of reforming very serious mistakes. If Science can't show by physics is. Where science declares that there is not a God that created the cosmos then it is put forward that there is no God Almighty because Science is unable to prove a God. With science regarded as everything that is flawless and absolutely correct there is never even given a thought that it is Science that is too feeble and incorrect to prove the existence of a God or Creator and science with the corruption it is formed by, has not the ability to prove God Almighty. No, the existence of God Almighty comes into question and the question is never brought to the door of the accuracy or the ability of Science. This book is about how incorrect the basis of science is and how nature proves Newton's misconceptions. Science hides Newton's flaws by ignoring and disregarding such flawsHowever science cannot ignore the Titius Bode law, which I prove, and which forms the solar system!This book does precisely what the title says. This book shows how the principles that nature applies at present and throughout time completely destroy all integrity Newton's principles on science claim to have concerning validity or claim there may be on accuracy or any other form of factuality it may have thought to carry. The idea science put forward that nature and Newton fit hand in glove is a myth carried on by mainstream science by never mentioning the differences between nature and Newton. This is ongoing for more than three hundred years but Newtonian, which is accepted science holds as much truth as Newtonian approach to cosmology present in accuracy and that is nothing. Newton's views and claims on physics and what nature applies do not even share a Universe in comparison. I prove deception is deliberately carried out by science. Nature is shown as a joke and reading a short book I hand out for free will embrace and prove what I say with much clarity. I broke free from incorrect science by proving nature holds validity in spite of science trying to diminish and nullify nature or the ultimate role nature plays. Mainstream publishers on science blocks all my attempts because my work destroys Newtonian science. For the first time in human history I manage to prove nature and the way nature applies gravity. In the past no attempt was ever made to prove nature.In this book I prove a principle called the Titius Bode law. In more complex books I prove the other three as well. The Titius Bode law is the way nature forms the solar system and this principle and the way nature applies the principle annihilates everything Newton ever said about cosmology. The truth about what gravity is shows the Universe in a total new revealing light. When applying physics in accordance with nature and the four principles nature uses to form the solar system, the entire concept becomes new and the entire concept forming cosmology gets a clarity it never had, regarding not only the physics aspect but also the entire picture of how the cosmos forms that is rewritten. I base everything on the findings of Johannes Kepler and the way Johannes Kepler formulated the solar system. Newton in complete ignorance of what science is made such a hash of Kepler in the way Newton raped Kepler's work that read as Newton corrupted Kepler's work it is completely laughable. This is what this book brings; it brings the new concept that introduces the new clarity concerning cosmology.