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Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
Comets Popular Culture and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
Author: Sara Schechner Genuth, Sara Schechner Genuth
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691011509
ISBN-10: 0691011508
Publication Date: 8/4/1997
Pages: 365
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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