The Copernican Revolution

Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674171039
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
An account of the Copernican Revolution, focusing on the significance of the plurality of the revolution which encompassed not only mathematical astronomy, but also conceptual changes in cosmology, physics, philosophy, and religion.

Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution

Author: Michael J. Crowe
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486315592
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Revised edition re-creates the change from an earth- to a sun-centered conception of the solar system by focusing on an examination of the evidence available in 1615.

Wittgenstein's Copernican Revolution

Author: I. Dilman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023059901X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
Wittgenstein's Copernican Revolution is concerned with how one is to conceive of the relation between language and reality without embracing Linguistic Realism and without courting any form of Linguistic Idealism either. It argues that this is precisely what Wittgenstein does and also examines some well known contemporary philosophers who have been concerned with this same question.

Interpreting Kuhn

Author: K. Brad Wray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498299
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
"One might wonder if there is anything new to say about Thomas Kuhn and his views on science. Scholarship on Kuhn, though, has changed dramatically in the last 20 years. This is so for a number reasons"--

The Genesis of the Copernican World

Author: Hans Blumenberg
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262022675
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 838

Book Description
This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity.

Reason and Wonder

Author: Dave Pruett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313399204
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 425

Book Description
In this enlightening and provocative exploration, Dave Pruett sets out a revolutionary new understanding of our place in the universe, one that reconciles the rational demands of science with the deeper tugs of spirituality. Defining a moment in human self-awareness four centuries in the making, Reason and Wonder: A Copernican Revolution in Science and Spirit offers a way to move beyond the either/or choice of reason versus intuition—a dichotomy that ultimately leaves either the mind or the heart wanting. In doing so, it seeks to resolve an age-old conflict at the root of much human dysfunction, including today's global ecological crisis. An outgrowth of C. David Pruett's breakthrough undergraduate honors course, "From Black Elk to Black Holes: Shaping Myth for a New Millennium," Reason and Wonder embraces the insights of modern science and the wisdom of spiritual traditions to "re-enchant the universe." The new "myth of meaning" unfolds as the story of three successive "Copernican revolutions"—cosmological, biological, and spiritual—offers an expansive view of human potential as revolutionary as the work of Copernicus, Galilleo, and Darwin.

The First Copernican

Author: Dennis Danielson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802718485
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
In May, 1539, a young, German mathematician named Georg Joachim Rheticus traveled hundreds of miles across Europe in the hopes of meeting and spending a few days with the legendary astronomer, Nicolas Copernicus, in Frombork, Poland. Two and a half years later, Rheticus was still there, fascinated by what he was discovering, but largely engaged in trying to convince Copernicus to publish his masterwork-De revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of the Heavens), the first book to posit that the sun was the center of the universe. That he was finally able to do so just as Copernicus was dying became a turning point for science and civilization. That he then went on to a legendary career of his own-he founded the field of trigonometry, for example-will be one of the many surprises in this eye-opening book, which will restore Rheticus to his rightful place in the history of science.

On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Concise Edition)

Author: Copernicus
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1804175714
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
Controversial at the time, Copernicus's discoveries led to the scientific revolution, and a greater understanding of our place in the universe. An accessible, abridged edition with a new introduction. Renaissance Natural philosopher Nicolaus Copernicus's pioneering discovery of the heliocentric nature of the solar system is one of the few identifiable moments in history that define the understanding of the nature of all things. His great work was the consequence of long observation and resulted in the first stage of the Scientific Revolution by correctly positing that the earth and other planets of the solar system revolved around the sun. Not only did this promote further study to understand the place of humanity in the world and the universe, it questioned the authority of the organised Christian Church in the West to be the keeper of fundamental truths. Ultimately this would lead to the Enlightenment, and the separation of religion, government and science. The FLAME TREE Foundations series features core publications which together have shaped the cultural landscape of the modern world, with cutting-edge research distilled into pocket guides designed to be both accessible and informative.

The Unfinished Copernican Revolution

Author: Jean Laplanche
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942254157
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Kant's Copernican Revolution

Author: Ermanno Bencivenga
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
In this highly original and wide-ranging discourse on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Bencivenga fully reveals how this seminal work embodies a universal conceptual revolution.