Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology

by Sara Schechner

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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 people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691009252

ISBN13:9780691009254

Release Date:September 1999

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:384 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Astronomy Astronomy & Space Science Comets, Meteors & Asteroids Cosmology Education & Reference History & Philosophy Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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