The Poetic Structure of the World : Copernicus and Kepler by Fernand Hallyn (1990, Hardcover)

ZONE Books

0942299604

9780942299601

1048104

Fernand Hallyn

Poetic Structure of the World : Copernicus and Kepler

Hardcover

English

History & Surveys / General, Philosophy & Social Aspects, History, Astronomy

1990

Textbook

Science, Philosophy

368 Pages

9.3 in

1.3 in

6.4 in

24.9 Oz

89-035295

18

Qb14.5.H3513 1990

College Graduate Student

A fascinating dialogue on the discourses of early modern astronomy. Hallyn's study of hypotheses, the heuristic fictions of science, takes its cue from C.S. Peirce's work on abduction and abductive inference in science, but his work really begins where Peirce's epistemology leaves off: with the categories of early modern inquiry, a task to which Hallyn ... is particularly well suited., A book in the best tradition of the interdisciplinary and intellectual freedom that has characterized philosophy and the human sciences since the 1960s.

1990

College Audience

501

20

Yes