The Pursuit of Harmony
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The Pursuit of Harmony

Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community

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The Pursuit of Harmony

Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community

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A committed Lutheran excommunicated from his own church, a friend to Catholics and Calvinists alike, a layman who called himself a "priest of God, " a Copernican in a world where Ptolemy still reigned, a man who argued at the same time for the superiority of one truth and the need for many truths to coexist—German astronomer Johannes Kepler was, to say the least, a complicated figure. With The Pursuit of Harmony, Aviva Rothman offers a new view of him and his achievements, one that presents them as a story of Kepler's attempts to bring different, even opposing ideas and circumstances into harmony.Harmony, Rothman shows, was both the intellectual bedrock for and the primary goal of Kepler's disparate endeavors. But it was also an elusive goal amid the deteriorating conditions of his world, as the political order crumbled and religious war raged. In the face of that devastation, Kepler's hopes for his theories changed: whereas he had originally looked for a unifying approach to truth, he began instead to emphasize harmony as the peaceful coexistence of different views, one that could be fueled by the fundamentally nonpartisan discipline of mathematics.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780226497020
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Science General
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. On Kepler’s Works and Translations
  6. Introduction: Kepler and the Harmonic Ideal
  7. 1  “The Study of Divine Things”: Kepler as Astronomer-Priest
  8. 2  “Matters of Conscience”: Kepler and the Lutheran Church
  9. 3  “Of God and His Community”: Kepler and the Catholic Church
  10. 4  “An Ally in the Search for Truth”: Kepler and Galileo
  11. 5  “Political Digression(s)”: Kepler and the Harmony of the State
  12. 6  “The Christian Resolution of the Calendar”: Kepler as Impartial Mathematician
  13. Conclusion: Perspective, Perception, and Pluralism
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index