Analogy and creativity in the works of Johannes Kepler.

The Curious Eye explores early modern debates over two related questions: what are the limits of human vision, and to what extent can these limits be overcome by technological enhancement? Today, in our everyday lives we rely on optical technology to provide us with information about visually remote spaces even as we question the efficacy and ethics of such pursuits. But the debates surrounding the subject of technologically mediated vision have their roots in a much older literary tradition in which the ability to see beyond the limits of natural human vision is associated with philosophical and spiritual insight as well as social and political control. The Curious Eye provides insight into the subject of optically mediated vision by returning to the literature of the seventeenth century, the historical moment in which human visual capacity in the West was first extended through the application of optical technologies to the eye. Bringing imaginative literary works by Francis Bacon, John Milton, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn together with optical and philosophical treatises by Johannes Kepler, René Descartes, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton, The Curious Eye explores the social and intellectual impact of the new optical technologies of the seventeenth century on its literature. At the same time, it demonstrates that social, political, and literary concerns are not peripheral to the optical science of the period but rather an integral part of it, the legacy of which we continue to experience.

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The Starry Universe of Jacques Cassini: Century-old Echoes of Kepler

Journal for the History of Astronomy ◽

10.1177/00218286211007954 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 52 (2) ◽

pp. 147-167

Author(s):

Christopher M. Graney

Keyword(s):

18Th Century ◽

The Sun ◽

Johannes Kepler ◽

Apparent Diameter ◽

Early 18Th Century ◽

Made In

This paper discusses measurements of the apparent diameter and parallax of the star Sirius, made in the early 18th century by Jacques Cassini, and how those measurements were discussed by other writers. Of particular interest is how other writers accepted Cassini’s measurements, but then discussed Sirius and other stars as though they were all the same size as the sun. Cassini’s measurements, by contrast, required Sirius and other stars to dwarf the sun—something Cassini explicitly noted, and something that echoed the ideas of Johannes Kepler more than a century earlier.

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Johannes Kepler in Ulm Revisited: New Aspects of Old Known Facts—

The Mathematical Intelligencer ◽

10.1007/s00283-021-10042-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Hans-Joachim Albinus ◽

Detlef Suckrau

Keyword(s):

Johannes Kepler

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On the future of computer science

XRDS Crossroads The ACM Magazine for Students ◽

10.1145/3452923 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 16-18

Author(s):

Elizabeth Churchill ◽

Nova Ahmed

Keyword(s):

Computer Science ◽

Full Professor ◽

Johannes Kepler ◽

Personal Experiences ◽

The Future

Gabriele Kotsis, ACM President and full professor in computer science at Johannes Kepler University, shares her personal experiences and suggestions to shape the future of computer science.

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