Measuring shadows : Kepler's optics of invisibility / Raz Chen-Morris.
Pubblicazione:
University Park : Pennsylvania state university press, 2016.
Descrizione fisica:
XI, 247 p. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of illustrations. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. The new optical narrative: light, camera obscura and the astronomer's wings 2. Seeing with my own eyes: introducing the new foundations of scientific knowledge 3. The content of Kepler's visual language: abstraction, representation and the art of painting 4. Non tanquam pictor, sed tanquam mathematicus: Kepler's pictures and the art of painting 5. Reading the book of nature: allegories, emblems and geometrical diagrams 6. Nothing and the ends of Renaissance science. Postscript. Notes. Bibliography. Index
