Measuring Shadows

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The New Optical Narrative: Light, Camera Obscura, and the Astronomer’s Wings

2 “Seeing with My Own Eyes”: Introducing the New Foundations of Scientific Knowledge

3 The Content of Kepler’s Visual Language: Abstraction, Representation, and Recognition

4 “Non tanquam Pictor, sed tanquam Mathematicus”: Kepler’s Pictures and the Art of Painting

5 Reading the Book of Nature: Allegories, Emblems, and Geometrical Diagrams

6 Nothing and the Ends of Renaissance Science

Postscript

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“Presents a well-researched yet original interpretation of the relationship between science, philosophy, and the arts during several significant periods of extreme transition in an impressively aesthetic manner. It is recommended to readers particularly in the humanities, who may appreciate the author’s conceptual expression of scientific ideas, which will nevertheless not be lost on readers of a scientific background. Raz Chen-Morris’s work is both clear and, if I may say, imaginative, true to the transiting ethos of Kepler’s time.”

—Cherly Kayahara-Bass, Sixteenth Century Journal