Article ID: CBB000931537

Life in the Liquid Fields: Kepler, Tycho and Gilbert on the Nature of the Heavens and Earth (2008)

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In what follows, I explore one aspect of Kepler's animism that continued to underlie his cosmology. Through the pervasive presence of a natural faculty, Kepler accounted for celestial novelties according to the same dynamic process of decay and renewal occurring on earth. Subjecting the heavens and earth to the same physical scrutiny,7 Kepler identified a more fundamental form of continuity, a natural faculty whose instauration of matter to some new form evinced the self-restorative capacity of the animate cosmos.8 The present paper focuses on the pivotal role that the natural faculty played in Kepler's comprehensive study of the new star of 1604, De stella nova (1606). Here, Kepler attributed the source of the new star in the celestial realm to the same process that produced new entities in the terrestrial realm. If such a process was spontaneous, it was anything but mechanistic.

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Authors & Contributors
Jardine, Nicholas
Voelkel, James R.
Swerdlow, Noel M.
Zampieri, Luca
Turatto, Massimo
Spelda, Daniel
Concepts
Astronomy
Cosmology
Mathematics
Moon
Copernicanism
Stars; stellar astronomy
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
Early modern
18th century
20th century
Places
Europe
Prague (Czechia)
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