{"product_id":"measuring-shadows-raz-chen-morris-9780271070988","title":"Measuring Shadows: Kepler S Optics of Invisibility","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMeasuring Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler's \u003ci\u003eOptics\u003c\/i\u003e is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler's radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how the seventeenth-century astronomer posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge. Chen-Morris reveals how Kepler's ideas about the formation of images on the retina and the geometrics of the camera obscura, as well as his astronomical observations, advanced the argument that physical reality could only be described through artificially produced shadows, reflections, and refractions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBreaking from medieval and Renaissance traditions that insisted upon direct sensory perception, Kepler advocated for instruments as mediators between the eye and physical reality, and for mathematical language to describe motion. It was only through this kind of knowledge, he argued, that observation could produce certainty about the heavens. Not only was this conception of visibility crucial to advancing the early modern understanding of vision and the retina, but it affected how people during that period approached and understood the world around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Raz Chen-Morris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271070986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271070988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2016","brand":"Raz Chen-Morris","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064810844415,"sku":"9780271070988","price":85.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fdfa0273-af07-4785-a8b2-a2c345412ff4.jpg?v=1768671183","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/measuring-shadows-raz-chen-morris-9780271070988","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}