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001 00036681
003 DLC
005 20050308180054.0
008 000322s2000 njua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 00036681
020 $a0691050694 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQB355.3$b.M37 2000
082 00 $a521/.3$221
100 1 $aMartens, Rhonda,$d1964-
245 10 $aKepler's philosophy and the new astronomy /$cRhonda Martens.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2000.
300 $axii, 201 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 192-197) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Kepler's Life and Times -- Select Biography -- Kepler's Astronomical Inheritance -- Kepler's Philosophical Inheritance -- 2. The Mysterium cosmographicum and Kepler's Early Approach -- to Natural Philosophy -- The Content of the Mysterium cosmographicum -- Kepler' Cosmology -- Kepler' Approach to Natural Philosophy -- 3. Kepler's Apologia: An Early Modern Treatise on Realism -- Extra-Astronomical Considerations -- The Nature of Astronomical Hypotheses -- The Testing of Astronomical Hypotheses -- Kepler's Improved Notion of Testability -- Concluding Remarks: The Archetypes -- 4. Kepler's Archetypes and the Astronomia nova -- The Status of Hypotheses in Physical Astronomy -- The Replacement of the Mean by the True Sun -- The Vicarious Hypothesis -- The New Physics -- Kepler' Second Law -- Oval Orbits -- Physical and Geometrical Models of Libration -- The Ellipse of Chapter 59 -- Concluding Remarks: Archetypes in the Astronomia -- 5. The Aristotelian Kepler -- The Aristotelian Challenge -- Physical Astronomy as a Mixed Discipline -- The Mathematical and the Physical -- Concluding Remarks -- 6. The Harmonice mundi -- Kepler and Ptolemy -- The Essence of Archetypal Mathematics -- Synopsis of Book V -- The Influence of Kepler's Harmonies on His Cosmology -- 7. The Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae: Kepler's Mature -- Physical Astronomy -- The Nature of Astronomy and Observation -- Archetypes as a Prerequisite for Physics -- Book IV and the Archetypes -- Book V -- Concluding Remarks -- Conclusion -- The Fate of Kepler's Philosophical Thought -- The Threat to the Perfectibility of Astronomy -- Kepler's Philosophical Legacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
650 0 $aKepler's laws.
650 0 $aAstronomy.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin022/00036681.html
856 41 $3Table of Contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/00036681.html