Fictions of the cosmos: science and literature in the seventeenth century
Auteur :
Ait-Touati, Frederique
Éditeur :
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN :
9780226011226
Date de publication :
15 nov. 2011
Dimensions :
2,4 x 1,7 x 0,2 cm
Poids :
482 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.