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The Copernican Revolution
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Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1992-01-01
The Copernican Revolution written by Thomas S. Kuhn and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Science categories.
For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical problem can alter our basic thought processes and attitudes. Understanding the processes which underlay the Revolution gives us a perspective, in this scientific age, from which to evaluate our own beliefs more intelligently. With a constant keen awareness of the inseparable mixture of its technical, philosophical, and humanistic elements, Thomas S. Kuhn displays the full scope of the Copernican Revolution as simultaneously an episode in the internal development of astronomy, a critical turning point in the evolution of scientific thought, and a crisis in Western man’s concept of his relation to the universe and to God. The book begins with a description of the first scientific cosmology developed by the Greeks. Mr. Kuhn thus prepares the way for a continuing analysis of the relation between theory and observation and belief. He describes the many functions—astronomical, scientific, and nonscientific—of the Greek concept of the universe, concentrating especially on the religious implications. He then treats the intellectual, social, and economic developments which nurtured Copernicus’ break with traditional astronomy. Although many of these developments, including scholastic criticism of Aristotle’s theory of motion and the Renaissance revival of Neoplatonism, lie entirely outside of astronomy, they increased the flexibility of the astronomer’s imagination. That new flexibility is apparent in the work of Copernicus, whose De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is discussed in detail both for its own significance and as a representative scientific innovation. With a final analysis of Copernicus’ life work—its reception and its contribution to a new scientific concept of the universe—Mr. Kuhn illuminates both the researches that finally made the heliocentric arrangement work, and the achievements in physics and metaphysics that made the planetary earth an integral part of Newtonian science. These are the developments that once again provided man with a coherent and self-consistent conception of the universe and of his own place in it. This is a book for any reader interested in the evolution of ideas and, in particular, in the curious interplay of hypothesis and experiment which is the essence of modern science. Says James Bryant Conant in his Foreword: “Professor Kuhn’s handling of the subject merits attention, for...he points the way to the road which must be followed if science is to be assimilated into the culture of our times.”
Theories Of The World From Antiquity To The Copernican Revolution
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Author : Michael J. Crowe
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2013-04-09
Theories Of The World From Antiquity To The Copernican Revolution written by Michael J. Crowe and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-09 with Science categories.
Revised edition re-creates the change from an earth- to a sun-centered conception of the solar system by focusing on an examination of the evidence available in 1615.
The Copernican Revolution
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Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
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The Genesis Of The Copernican World
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Author : Hans Blumenberg
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1987
The Genesis Of The Copernican World written by Hans Blumenberg and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Philosophy categories.
This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity.
On The Revolutions
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Author : Nicolaus Copernicus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
On The Revolutions written by Nicolaus Copernicus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Science categories.
In 1973, on the 500th anniversary of Copernicus's birth, the Polish Academy of Sciences announced its intention to publish all of the astronomer's extant works, both in their original Latin and in modern translations. Here, available for the first time in softcover, are Edward Rosen's authoritative English translations and commentaries.
The Copernican Revolution
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Author : Thomas Samuel Kuhn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
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The Last Frontier
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Author : Karl S. Guthke
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-15
The Last Frontier written by Karl S. Guthke and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with Fiction categories.
The existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life has been a subject of debate since the dawn of recorded history. The Last Frontier, originally published in German in 1983 and now available in Helen Atkins's sensitive English translation, traces the development of the idea that Earth is not the only planet inhabited by intelligent beings, but that there might be a plurality or even an infinity of "worlds" with human or humanoid life. Focusing on the seventeenth to the twentieth century and taking into account theological, philosophical, scientific, popular, and literary writings from American, British, French, and German sources, Karl S. Guthke demonstrates the continuing importance of this question to the process of human self-definition.
Copernican Revolution
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Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Copernican Revolution written by Thomas S. Kuhn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Cosmology categories.
Copernican Revolution
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Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Copernican Revolution written by Thomas S. Kuhn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Cosmology categories.
On The Revolutions Of The Heavenly Spheres
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Author : Nicolaus Copernicus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
On The Revolutions Of The Heavenly Spheres written by Nicolaus Copernicus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Science categories.
"The Copernican revolution in man's ideas of the structure of the universe, the place of his own earth in it, and the methods and concepts appropriate for studying it is probably the most important turning point in the development of modern science and the European mind. Although Copernicus himself seems hardly to have realised the scope of the upheaval which he was starting, his book On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres, published when he was on his deathbed, is certainly one of the most significant in the history of European thought. It is important not only in the history of astronomy and cosmology but also in the history of mathematics. Although the mathematics involved would now scarcely be counted as advanced, the book was the most accomplished mathematical work published since the time of Ptolemy fourteen centuries before. The power and breadth of its treatment of the motions of the earth, moon and planets are still immensely impressive. Hitherto no English translation of the whole work has been readily accessible. Dr. Duncan has set out to convey the meaning and tone of Copernicus's words in a simple, straightforward style for English-speaking readers. The introduction and notes give the essential background for understanding the work"--Dust jacket.