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Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology Sara Schechner Genuth
Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
Sara Schechner Genuth
Presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. This book shows that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities.
384 pages, 53 halftones 2 tables
| Medios de comunicación | Libros Paperback Book (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado) |
| Publicado | 27 de septiembre de 1999 |
| ISBN13 | 9780691009254 |
| Editores | Princeton University Press |
| Páginas | 384 |
| Dimensiones | 197 × 254 × 231 mm · 510 g |
| Lengua | Inglés |