{"product_id":"keplers-philosophy-and-the-new-astronomy-9780691050690","title":"Keplers Philosophy and the New Astronomy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohannes Kepler contributed importantly to every field he addressed. This book offers the study of Kepler's philosophical views and shows how those views helped him construct and justify the astronomy. It explores the complex interplay between changes in his philosophical views and the status of his astronomical discoveries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rhonda Martens shows in this historically informed tome that Kepler grappled constantly, and advantageously with philosophical problems throughout his career... The truly original contribution of [this book] is the tracing of Kepler's philosophical ideas as they weave through and strengthen his science.\"--Bruce Stephenson, Astronomy \"This little book makes a big contribution not only to Kepler studies but to our understanding of early modern philosophy in general... Martens has effectively shown that to understand Kepler, to understand how he influenced his times, and to understand how his times grappled with the issues he and other innovators were dealing with, it is necessary to look closely at his philosophy.\"--Sheila J. Rabin, Isis \"A valuable contribution to our understanding of Kepler... More broadly, Kepler's Philosophy increases our understanding of the significant role that philosophical questions played in the scientific debates of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.\"--Kathryn Morris, Philosophy in Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFigures and Tables ix  Acknowledgments xi  Abbreviations of Works Frequently Cited xiii  Introduction 3  1. Kepler's Life and Times 10  Select Biography 10  Kepler's Astronomical Inheritance 18  Kepler's Philosopbical Inheritance 32  2. The Mysterium cosmographicum and Kepler's Early Approach to Natural Philosophy 39  The Content of the Mysterium cosmographicum 39  Kepler's Cosmology 48  Kepler's Approach to Natural Philosophy 49  3. Kepler's Apologia: An Early Modern Treatise on Realism 57  Extra-Astronomical Considerations 58  The Nature of Astronomical Hypotheses 60  The Testing of Astronomucal Hypotheses 63  Kepler's Improved Notion of Testability 64  Concluding Remarks: The Archetypes 67  4. Kepler's Archetypes and the Astronomia nova 69  The Status of Hypotheses in Physical Astronomy 70  The Replacement of the Mean by the True Sun 71  The Vicarious Hypothesis 76  The New Physics 79  Kepler's Second Law 84  Oval Orbits 87  Physical and Geometrical Models of Liberation 91  The Ellipse of Chapter 59 95  Concluding Remarks: Archetypes in the Astronomia 97  5. The Aristotelian Kepler 99  The Aristotelian Challenge 9O  Physical Astronomy as a Mixed Discipline 103  The Mathematical and the Physical 106  Concluding Remarks 111  6. The Harmonice mundi 112  Kepler and Ptolemy 112  The Essence of Archetypal Mathematics 118  Synopsis of Book V 120  The Influence of Kepler's Haramonies on His Cosmology 136  7. The Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae: Kepler's Mature Physical Astronomy 142  The Nature of Astronomy and Observation 144  Archetypes as a Prerequisite for Physics 146  Book IV and the Archetypes 147  Book V 163  Concluding Remarks 167  Conclusion: The Fate of Kepler's Philosophical Thought 169  The Threat to the Perfectibility of Astronomy 169  Kepler's Philosophical Legacy 172  Notes 177  Bibliography 191  Index 199","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403703755095,"sku":"9780691050690","price":73.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/keplers-philosophy-and-the-new-astronomy-9780691050690","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}