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Hardback. New. 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…
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The Pursuit of Harmony: Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community Hardcover - 2017
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- Title The Pursuit of Harmony: Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community
- Author Aviva Rothman
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date 2017
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226496979 / 022649697X
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.2 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 3.05 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Cosmology, Religion and science
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017013388
- Dewey Decimal Code 113
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