Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
by Sara Schechner
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- ISBN 10
- 0691009252
- ISBN 13
- 9780691009254
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Paperback / softback. New. Presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. This book shows that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities.
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- The Saint Bookstore (GB)
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- Title
- Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
- Author
- Sara Schechner
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0691009252
- ISBN 13
- 9780691009254
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, New Jersey
- This edition first published
- 1999-09
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