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The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science Nicholas Jardine

The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science By Nicholas Jardine

The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science by Nicholas Jardine

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Nicholas Jardine offers here an edition and the first translation into English of Johannes Kepler's A Defence of Tycho against Ursus. Dr Jardine also provides three extended interpretive essays on the intrinsic interest and historical significance of the work.

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The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science: Kepler's 'A Defence of Tycho against Ursus' with Essays on its Provenance and Significance by Nicholas Jardine

Nicholas Jardine offers here an edition and the first translation into English of Johannes Kepler's A Defence of Tycho against Ursus. He accompanies this with essays on the provenance of the treatise - the circumstances which provoked Kepler to write it, an analysis of its strategy, style and historical sources and of the contents of Ursus' Treatise on Astronomical Hypotheses to which Kepler was replying. Dr Jardine also provides three extended interpretive essays on the intrinsic interest and historical significance of the work.

The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science Reviews

Review of the hardback:: 'Jardine's book is rich in epistemological and historiographical issues, bold and stimulating in its speculations and detailed in its use of evidence. It should lead to further fruitful investigation ... few will deny the substantial contribution made by its author to our understanding of the origin of Kepler's advanced conceptions ...' Isis
Review of the hardback: 'Jardine's elucidating and profound essays deserve a wide audience.' Annals of Science
Review of the hardback: '... its importance in Kepler's scholarship has been recognised for many decades and Jardine's book at last brings it to light ... Jardine's translation ... is lucid and meticulously annotated. [His] essays are remarkable for their intrinsic human as well as scholarly interest.' Philosophy of Science

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations of works frequently cited; Introduction; Part I. The Provenance of the Apologia: 1. The circumstances of composition; 2. Ursus' Tractacus; 3. Kepler's initial reaction to the Tractatus; 4. The scope and form of the Apologia; Part II. Apologia pro Tychone contra Ursum: 5. Text and translation of the Apologia; Part III. The Significance of the Apologia: 6. Against the sceptics; 7. The status of astronomy; 8. Historiography; 9. Final reflections; Index of names.

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NLS9780521346993
9780521346993
0521346991
The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science: Kepler's 'A Defence of Tycho against Ursus' with Essays on its Provenance and Significance by Nicholas Jardine
Nicholas Jardine
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
1988-02-18
312
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