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9780942299618

Poetic Structure of the World : Copernicus and Kepler

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  • ISBN13:

    9780942299618

  • ISBN10:

    0942299612

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1993-05-24
  • Publisher: Zone Books

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7(28)
Part One Copernicus or the Renaissance of the Cosmos
Science and Irony
35(18)
Science and Anagogy
53(20)
``The Principal Consideration...''
73(32)
Synecdoches
105(22)
Metaphor of the Center
127(24)
Part Two Kepler or the Mannerist Cosmos
From Copernicus to Kepler
151(12)
The Semiosis of the World
163(20)
The Cosmographic Mystery
183(20)
Thinking the Ellipse
203(28)
The Musical Metaphor
231(22)
The Lunar Dream
253(28)
Conclusion 281(6)
Notes 287(68)
Index 355

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