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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
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: 9780691009254
ISBN-10: 0691009252
Publication Date: 9/7/1999
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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