Measuring shadows :

Chen-Morris, Raz

Measuring shadows : Kepler's optics of invisibility Raz Chen-Morris - University Park, Pa. : The Pennsylvania State University Press, c2016. - xi, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Focusing on the astronomer Johannes Kepler's 1604 treatise on optics, explores Kepler's radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how he posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge in the early modern period"--Provided by publisher.

9780271070988

2015030525




Geometrical optics--History
Science, Renaissance
Science--Philosophy--History--17th century

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