Handbook of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy. Optics
Title | Handbook of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy. Optics PDF eBook |
Author | Dionysius Lardner |
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Pages | 280 |
Release | 1869 |
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Handbooks of Natural Philosophy & Astronomy
Title | Handbooks of Natural Philosophy & Astronomy PDF eBook |
Author | Dionysius Lardner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 870 |
Release | 1858 |
Genre | Astronomy |
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Handbook of Natural Philosophy ... Hydrostatics and Pneumatics. New Edition. Edited and the Greater Part Rewritten by B. Loewy ... With ... Illustrations
Title | Handbook of Natural Philosophy ... Hydrostatics and Pneumatics. New Edition. Edited and the Greater Part Rewritten by B. Loewy ... With ... Illustrations PDF eBook |
Author | Dionysius Lardner |
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Pages | 420 |
Release | 1874 |
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Measuring Shadows
Title | Measuring Shadows PDF eBook |
Author | Raz Chen-Morris |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2016-03-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 027107731X |
In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler’s radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how the seventeenth-century astronomer posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge. Chen-Morris reveals how Kepler’s ideas about the formation of images on the retina and the geometrics of the camera obscura, as well as his astronomical observations, advanced the argument that physical reality could only be described through artificially produced shadows, reflections, and refractions. Breaking from medieval and Renaissance traditions that insisted upon direct sensory perception, Kepler advocated for instruments as mediators between the eye and physical reality, and for mathematical language to describe motion. It was only through this kind of knowledge, he argued, that observation could produce certainty about the heavens. Not only was this conception of visibility crucial to advancing the early modern understanding of vision and the retina, but it affected how people during that period approached and understood the world around them.
Handbook of Natural Philosophy ... Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Heat
Title | Handbook of Natural Philosophy ... Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Heat PDF eBook |
Author | Dionysius Lardner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1855 |
Genre | Heat |
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This is volume two of the series on physics by Lardner. Liquids, gasses and thermodynamics are introduced.
Handbook of Natural Philosophy. Heat
Title | Handbook of Natural Philosophy. Heat PDF eBook |
Author | Dionysius Lardner |
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Pages | 528 |
Release | 1877 |
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Handbook of Astronomy
Title | Handbook of Astronomy PDF eBook |
Author | Dionysius Lardner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 710 |
Release | 1875 |
Genre | Astronomy |
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