The Poetic Structure of the World: Copernicus and Kepler
Read with caution. This book is really, truly difficult--even my professor says...
In this major reconsideration of a crucial turning point in Western thought and culture - the heliocentric revolution of Copernicus and Kepler - Fernand Hallyn applies a theory of rhetoric to the philosophy and history of science to show how the new sun-centered universe is inseparable from the aesthetic epistemological, theological, and social imperatives of both Neoplatonism and Mannerism in the sixteenth century.Fernand Hallyn is Professor in the Department of French Literature at the University of Ghent.
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Read with caution. This book is really, truly difficult--even my professor says this. But as I went on to other readings about Copernicus and Kepler (and many others), I found myself referring back to what Hallyn discusses about how hypotheses, etc. are formed, using the two noted scientists as examples. I appreciate Hallyn's comparative...