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The Pursuit of Harmony - Aviva Rothman

The Pursuit of Harmony

Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
336 Seiten
2017
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-49697-9 (ISBN)
CHF 83,80 inkl. MwSt
A committed Lutheran excommunicated from his own church, a friend to Catholics and Calvinists alike, a layman who called himself a "priest of God," a Copernican in a world where Ptolemy still reigned, a man who argued at the same time for the superiority of one truth and the need for many truths to coexist German astronomer Johannes Kepler was, to say the least, a complicated figure. With The Pursuit of Harmony, Aviva Rothman offers a new view of him and his achievements, one that presents them as a story of Kepler's attempts to bring different, even opposing ideas and circumstances into harmony. Harmony, Rothman shows, was both the intellectual bedrock for and the primary goal of Kepler's disparate endeavors. But it was also an elusive goal amid the deteriorating conditions of his world, as the political order crumbled and religious war raged. In the face of that devastation, Kepler's hopes for his theories changed: whereas he had originally looked for a unifying approach to truth, he began instead to emphasize harmony as the peaceful coexistence of different views, one that could be fueled by the fundamentally nonpartisan discipline of mathematics.

Aviva Rothman is collegiate assistant professor in the Social Sciences Division at the University of Chicago.

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 16 x 23 mm
Gewicht 624 g
Themenwelt Sonstiges Geschenkbücher
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10 0-226-49697-X / 022649697X
ISBN-13 978-0-226-49697-9 / 9780226496979
Zustand Neuware
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