Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern CosmologyPrinceton University Press, 1997 - 365 trang In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built. |
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Contemporary perspectives on womens | 17 |
1 | 21 |
1 | 41 |
Competition and community in English womens football | 45 |
Memory and English womens football | 68 |
A fine allround player | 83 |
2 | 84 |
Oral history and womens football in England | 102 |
Preface | 233 |
Introduction Planetary Omens Observations | 1 |
Periodicity and Variability of Synodic Phenomena | 34 |
Derivation of the Parameters for Synodic | 73 |
System | 86 |
Systems A1 and | 104 |
Alignment to the Zodiac Initial Position Elongation | 135 |
Summary and Conclusion 173 | 173 |
Baldwins United Ladies Football Team | 106 |
A Scottish womens team photograph c World War I | 106 |
Heys Brewery Bradford Ladies AFC 5 Atlanta Ladies 6 Dick Kerr International Ladies | 106 |
Greenwood and Batleys Ladies Armley 8 Stoke Ladies Football Team c 19213 | 106 |
The law and English womens football | 118 |
An international comparison | 148 |
A female future for a mans game? | 181 |
Notes | 189 |
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Index | 211 |
Appendix Alternative Methods of Deriving Parameters | 183 |
Tables 191 | 191 |
12A Venus System A1 and | 218 |
Figures 221 | 221 |
10A Mercury System A2 Q 226 | 226 |
This | 229 |
Notation and Abbreviations | 235 |
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