Description: Pursuit of Harmony : Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community, Hardcover by Rothman, Aviva, ISBN 022649697X, ISBN-13 9780226496979, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK A committed Lutheran excommunicated from his own church, a friend to Catholics and Calvinists alike, a layman who called himself a &;priest of God,&; a Copernican in a world where Ptolemy still reigned, a man who argued at the same time for the superiority of one truth and the need for many truths to coexist&;German astronomer Johannes Kepler was, to say the least, a complicated figure. With The Pursuit of Harmony, Aviva Rothman offers a new view of him and his achievements, one that presents them as a story of Kepler&;s attempts to bring different, even opposing ideas and circumstances into harmony. Harmony, Rothman shows, was both the intellectual bedrock for and the primary goal of Kepler&;s disparate endeavors. But it was also an elusive goal amid the deteriorating conditions of his world, as the political order crumbled and religious war raged. In the face of that devastation, Kepler&;s hopes for his theories changed: whereas he had originally looked for a unifying approach to truth, he began instead to emphasize harmony as the peaceful coexistence of different views, one that could be fueled by the fundamentally nonpartisan discipline of mathematics.
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Book Title: Pursuit of Harmony : Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Pursuit of Harmony: Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community
Publisher: T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Science
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Weight: 636 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Aviva Rothman
Item Width: 160 mm
Format: Hardcover
