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ISBN: 9004153705 9789004153707 9786611400514 1281400513 9047410890 9789047410898 9789047410898 9781281400512 6611400516 Year: 2007 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,
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In this critical edition and translation of Nicole Oresme’s On Seeing the Stars , the renowned 14th-century natural philosopher proposes that the stars are not where they seem. And perhaps nothing is where it seems. In this earliest treatise on atmospheric refraction, Oresme uses optics and infinitesimals to help solve this vexing problem of astronomy. He is the first to propose that light travels along a curve through the atmosphere – two centuries before Hooke and Newton, who are credited with the discovery. Further, he calls all sense data into doubt. Oresme’s argument concerning the curvature of light is a major milestone in the history of science, confirming that Oresme was one of the most innovative scientists of the pre-modern world.
Optics --- Refraction, Astronomical --- Science, Medieval --- 509.02 --- Medieval science --- Astronomical refraction --- Refraction --- Spherical astronomy --- Sciences History (500 - 1500)
ISBN: 1282099116 9786612099113 0262268175 1435606000 0262309238 9780262268172 9780262026208 0262026201 9781435606005 9781282099111 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press
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Notions of nature and art as they have been defined and redefined in Western culture, from the Hippocratic writers and Aristotle of Ancient Greece to nineteenth-century chemistry and twenty-first century biomimetics.
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