The Poetic Structure of the World

May 1993
367 pp., 11 illus.
$26.95/£19.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
0-942299-61-2
ISBN-13:
978-0-942-29961-8

Cloth (1990)

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The Poetic Structure of the World
Copernicus and Kepler
Fernand Hallyn
Translated by Donald Leslie

In this major reconsideration of a crucial turning point in Western thought and culture - the heliocentric revolution of Copernicus and Kepler - Fernand Hallyn applies a theory of rhetoric to the philosophy and history of science to show how the new sun-centered universe is inseparable from the aesthetic epistemological, theological, and social imperatives of both Neoplatonism and Mannerism in the sixteenth century.

Fernand Hallyn is Professor in the Department of French Literature at the University of Ghent.

"Confronted with a scientific text, the historian of science tries to define its signification, the epistemologist its theoretical status. 'Poetics'. . . proposes another approach. It studies the work of a scientist as an event embedded in a wider field of images, symbols, texts and practices. Scientific imagination is not fundamentally different from a mythic or poetic imagination.... Closely related notions of harmony, symmetry and proportion inform cosmology as well as music and painting. This book offers the first comprehensive, full-scale study of these relations."
—The Philosopher's index

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