The Poetic Structure of the World: Copernicus and Kepler (Zone Books) - Hardcover

Hallyn, Fernand

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0942299604 ISBN 13: 9780942299601

Verlag: Zone Books, 1990

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Book by Hallyn Fernand

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Críticas:

"Confronted with a scientific text, the historian of science tries to define its signification, the epistemologist its theoretical status. 'Poetics'... proposes another approach. It studies the work of a scientist as an event embedded in a wider field of images, symbols, texts and practices. Scientific imagination is not fundamentally different from a mythic or poetic imagination... Closely related notions of harmony, symmetry and proportion inform cosmology as well as music and painting. This book offers the first comprehensive, full-scale study of these relations." The Philosopher's index

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In this major reconsideration of a crucial turning point in Western thought and culture - the heliocentric revolution of Copernicus and Kepler - Fernand Hallyn applies a theory of rhetoric to the philosophy and history of science to show how the new sun-centered universe is inseparable from the aesthetic epistemological, theological, and social imperatives of both Neoplatonism and Mannerism in the sixteenth century.

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• Verlag: Zone Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0942299604
• ISBN 13: 9780942299601
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368