Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology

Name: Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
Brand: Princeton University Press
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Sara Schechner Genuth(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 9. März 2021

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Cover Page
Half-title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction Shared Culture, Separate Spaces
High and Low Culture
The Verbal and Visual in Popular Culture
The Culture of Comets
Part One: Signs of the Times
Chapter I: Ancient Signs
Physical Theories of Comets
Tokens of Doom
Political Messages and Means
Chapter II: Monsters and the Messiah
Popular and Patristic Views of Comets
Monsters and Their Messages
Monstrous Comets in Scripture
Star of Bethlehem, Herald of Judgment
Time of the End
Reformation in Religion
Chapter III: Divination
Color
Conjunctions
Passage through Zodiac and Prominent Constellations
Astrological Houses and Cardinal Orientations
Pointing of Tail
Position of Nucleus
Shapes and Sizes
Motion
Duration
Historical Induction
Chapter IV: Portents and Politics
In Streets and Alehouses
God on Their Side
Prophecies and Propaganda
Part Two: Natural Causes
Chapter V: From Natural Signs to Proximate Causes
New Attitudes toward Nature and the Recovery of Classical Science
Aristotle and Terrestrial Corruption
Ptolemy and the Power of Mars
Stepping-Stones from Symptoms to Causes
Critics and Strategies
Chapter VI: The Decline of Cometary Divination
Astronomical Reforms
Epistemological Critics
Shift in Priorities and Signs of Decline
Social Reasons for the Decline
Part Three: World Reformation
Chapter VII: Comets, Transmutations, and World Reform in Newton's Thought
Celestial Mechanics of Comets
Pristine Truths and Political Corruption
Transmutations and Perpetual Interchange
Fire, Water, and a Heavenly Physiology
Revolutions in the Heavenly Bodies
Comets, Teleology, and Newton's Appropriation of Comet Lore
Chapter VIII: Halley's Comet Theory, Noah's Flood, and the End of the World
Interest in Orbits
Halley's Theory of the Deluge
The End of the World
The Benefits of Comets
The Scientific Response
Ecclesiastical Criticism
Halley's Alleged Freethinking in Political Context
The Satirists'Barbs
Part Four: Comet Lore and Cosmogony
Chapter IX: Refueling the Sun and Planets
Circulation of Vital Matter
Critics
Stoking the Stellar Fires
Chapter X: Revolution and Evolution within the Heavens
Come Hell or High Water
From Creation to Cosmogony
Concluding Remarks: Popular Culture and Elite Science
Appendix: Recent Resurgence of Cometary Catastrophism
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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