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Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
Engelsk
Bogcover for Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology af Sara Schechner Genuth, 9780691009254
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Engelsk
Sider:
384
ISBN-13:
9780691009254
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0691009252
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Udg. Dato:
27 sep 1999
Størrelse i cm:
25,4 x 19,7
Oplagsdato:
27 sep 1999
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Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology

Engelsk
Paperback 1999
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In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people''s understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways.


Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God''s will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
384
ISBN-13:
9780691009254
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0691009252
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
27 sep 1999
Størrelse i cm:
25,4 x 19,7
Oplagsdato:
27 sep 1999
Forfatter(e):
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