Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology / / Sara Schechner.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 53 halftones 2 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION. Shared Culture, Separate Spaces
- PART ONE: SIGNS OF THE TIMES
- CHAPTER I Ancient Signs
- CHAPTER II Monsters and the Messiah
- CHAPTER III Divination
- CHAPTER IV Portents and Politics
- PART TWO: NATURAL CAUSES
- CHAPTER V From Natural Signs to Proximate Causes
- CHAPTER VI The Decline of Cometary Divination
- PART THREE: WORLD REFORMATION
- CHAPTER VII Comets, Transmutations, and World Reform in Newton's Thought
- CHAPTER VIII Halley's Comet Theory, Noah's Flood, and the End of the World
- PART FOUR: COMET LORE AND COSMOGONY
- CHAPTER IX Refueling the Sun and Planets
- CHAPTER X Revolution and Evolution within the Heavens
- CONCLUDING REMARKS. Popular Culture and Elite Science
- APPENDIX. Recent Resurgence of Cometary Catastrophism
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX