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By examining writings of Kepler, Godwin, Hooke, Cyrano, Cavendish, Fontenelle, and others, this title shows that it was through the telling of stories - such as accounts of celestial journeys - that the Copernican hypothesis, for example, found an ontological weight that its geometric models did not provide.

Fictions of the Cosmos

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    A Hardback by Frederique Ait-Touati, Susan Emanuel

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/11/2011
      ISBN13: 9780226011226, 978-0226011226
      ISBN10: 0226011224
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      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 History of science

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      Book Synopsis
      By examining writings of Kepler, Godwin, Hooke, Cyrano, Cavendish, Fontenelle, and others, this title shows that it was through the telling of stories - such as accounts of celestial journeys - that the Copernican hypothesis, for example, found an ontological weight that its geometric models did not provide.

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