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Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-197) and index.
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Kepler's Life and Times -- Select Biography -- Kepler's Astronomical Inheritance -- Kepler's Philosophical Inheritance -- 2. The Mysterium cosmographicum and Kepler's Early Approach -- to Natural Philosophy -- The Content of the Mysterium cosmographicum -- Kepler' Cosmology -- Kepler' Approach to Natural Philosophy -- 3. Kepler's Apologia: An Early Modern Treatise on Realism -- Extra-Astronomical Considerations -- The Nature of Astronomical Hypotheses -- The Testing of Astronomical Hypotheses -- Kepler's Improved Notion of Testability -- Concluding Remarks: The Archetypes -- 4. Kepler's Archetypes and the Astronomia nova -- The Status of Hypotheses in Physical Astronomy -- The Replacement of the Mean by the True Sun -- The Vicarious Hypothesis -- The New Physics -- Kepler' Second Law -- Oval Orbits -- Physical and Geometrical Models of Libration -- The Ellipse of Chapter 59 -- Concluding Remarks: Archetypes in the Astronomia -- 5. The Aristotelian Kepler -- The Aristotelian Challenge -- Physical Astronomy as a Mixed Discipline -- The Mathematical and the Physical -- Concluding Remarks -- 6. The Harmonice mundi -- Kepler and Ptolemy -- The Essence of Archetypal Mathematics -- Synopsis of Book V -- The Influence of Kepler's Harmonies on His Cosmology -- 7. The Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae: Kepler's Mature -- Physical Astronomy -- The Nature of Astronomy and Observation -- Archetypes as a Prerequisite for Physics -- Book IV and the Archetypes -- Book V -- Concluding Remarks -- Conclusion -- The Fate of Kepler's Philosophical Thought -- The Threat to the Perfectibility of Astronomy -- Kepler's Philosophical Legacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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