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Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology

Af: Sara Schechner Genuth Engelsk Paperback

Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology

Af: Sara Schechner Genuth Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 384
ISBN-13: 9780691009254
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0691009252
Kategori: Populærkultur
Udg. Dato: 27 sep 1999
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 197mm
Højde: 254mm
Forlag: Princeton University Press
Oplagsdato: 27 sep 1999
Forfatter(e): Sara Schechner Genuth
Forfatter(e) Sara Schechner Genuth

Kategori Populærkultur

ISBN-13 9780691009254

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 384

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 197mm

Højde 254mm

Udg. Dato 27 sep 1999

Oplagsdato 27 sep 1999

Forlag Princeton University Press

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