Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology

In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of peopl...
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Schechner, Sara [verfasserIn]

Format:

E-Book

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press ; 2021

©1997

Rechteinformationen:

Restricted Access

Schlagwörter:

Comets

Cosmology

Religion and science, History

Religion and science

Superstition

SCIENCE / Astronomy

Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource (384 p.) ; 53 halftones 2 tables

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ISBN:

978-0-691-22767-2

DOI / URN:

10.1515/9780691227672

Katalog-ID:

1822469910

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