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Motion and Knowledge in the Changing Early Modern WorldTwo Bohemian Journeys: Real, Imaginary and Idealized Voyages at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century

Motion and Knowledge in the Changing Early Modern World: Two Bohemian Journeys: Real, Imaginary... [This study concentrates on two travel narratives from the turn of the seventeenth century: Fynes Morison’s Itinerary and Johannes Kepler’s Somnium. Though one is real and the other imaginary, and though they belong to different traditions and their authors differ in credentials and aspirations, their subject matter, I suggest, is the same. Both are concerned with motion, the great intellectual challenge of the early modern era. For both Kepler and Moryson, motion represents the prospect of knowledge attained by change of perspective and the challenge of controlling it by practical mathematics; for both it is a source of terror and a wellspring of hope. For both of them, like it was for their contemporary Galileo, motion unifies the world and gives it meaning and structure.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Motion and Knowledge in the Changing Early Modern WorldTwo Bohemian Journeys: Real, Imaginary and Idealized Voyages at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century

Part of the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Book Series (volume 30)
Editors: Gal, Ofer; Zheng, Yi
Gal, Ofer
Motion and Knowledge in the Changing Early Modern World — Sep 30, 2013
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
ISBN
978-94-007-7382-0
Pages
15 –30
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-7383-7_2
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[This study concentrates on two travel narratives from the turn of the seventeenth century: Fynes Morison’s Itinerary and Johannes Kepler’s Somnium. Though one is real and the other imaginary, and though they belong to different traditions and their authors differ in credentials and aspirations, their subject matter, I suggest, is the same. Both are concerned with motion, the great intellectual challenge of the early modern era. For both Kepler and Moryson, motion represents the prospect of knowledge attained by change of perspective and the challenge of controlling it by practical mathematics; for both it is a source of terror and a wellspring of hope. For both of them, like it was for their contemporary Galileo, motion unifies the world and gives it meaning and structure.]

Published: Sep 30, 2013

Keywords: Seventeenth Century; Heavenly Motion; Heavenly Body; Wonderful Variety; Pagan Time

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