{"title":"Kepler’s Research in Astrology and his Horoscope Collection","authors":"Karine Dilanian","doi":"10.46472/cc.01225.0203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01225.0203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115636315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resonances and Repercussions of Kepler’s Harmony of the World","authors":"G. Oestmann","doi":"10.46472/cc.01225.0215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01225.0215","url":null,"abstract":"In 1619 the Harmonices mundi libri V was published, which Kepler considered his greatest work. It is well-known and famous for containing the Third Law of Planetary Motion, but book IV deals with his attempt to reform astrology within a Pythagorean-Platonic framework, and here he presented a new understanding of the mechanism of the aspects. Kepler’s “astrology of resonance” had repercussions among contemporary astrologers in the 17th century, such as Christopher Heydon, Abdias Trew and Peter Crüger. His ideas of a physical basis for celestial motions and were viewed critically however, and in the perspective of the Age of Enlightenment Kepler’s speculative approaches, as well as his metaphysical and religious arguments met with skepticism and disapproval. The tide turned in the Romantic Era, when just these aspects came to the fore and paved the way to an edition of Kepler’s works. The German philosophers F. W. J. Schelling (1775–1854), E. F. Apelt (1812–1859) and the astronomer J. W. A. Pfaff (1774–1835) played a crucial role in the rediscovery and reappraisal of Kepler. Pfaff worked on a German translation of the Harmonices mundi, and the teacher of mathematics Christian Frisch (1807–1881), who had studied under Pfaff in Erlangen, published the first critical edition of Kepler’s works from 1858 to 1871.","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"13 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116785803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Fate of Kepler’s Handwritten Heritage","authors":"I. Tunkina","doi":"10.46472/cc.01225.0201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01225.0201","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the problematic fate of Kepler’s handwritten archives, which changed hands on several occasions until they appeared in Russia in 1774. Under a directive from the Empress Catherine the Great, part of Kepler’s archive was bought for the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. From 1937, J. Kepler’s personal manuscripts were kept in the Archive of the Academy of Sciences, USSR (now the Saint Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences).","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132783576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Harmony, Politics and Utopia in the Cosmology of Jean Bodin and Johannes Kepler","authors":"Nicholas Campion","doi":"10.46472/cc.01225.0213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01225.0213","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores Harmonice Mundi as a political text and considers the influence on Kepler of the French political theorist Jean Bodin (1530–1596). Both Bodin and Kepler subscribed to the political cosmology inherited from Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics, and elaborated in detail by Claudius Ptolemy, in which the terrestrial state was part of a wider entity including the celestial spheres and the use of the planets to identify changes in the quality of time and fluctuations in natural influences. Both sought to remedy failures in contemporary astrology and create a new and empirical discipline which could avert future crises by predicting them. The paper examines Bodin’s theories and then locates the work of both him and Kepler as attempts to establish ways to create stability in the unstable politics of the post-Reformation era, and contextualises Kepler’s attempts to delineate the perfect state as utopian.","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124411571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sun Within: New Solar Myth in Early Novels of Wilson Harris and J.G.\u0000 Ballard","authors":"Ben Pestell","doi":"10.46472/cc.1224.0215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.1224.0215","url":null,"abstract":"Even in our disenchanted age, the Sun remains a potent symbol in mythopoeic\u0000 literature, and, in very different ways, Wilson Harris and J. G. Ballard each use\u0000 internalised images of the Sun to construct and narrate their modern mythical\u0000 landscapes. In Harris’s Palace of the Peacock (1960), the Sun fills the pages with a\u0000 nebulous and ineffable blinding power. In Ballard’s The Drowned World (1962), the dual\u0000 image of the physical and the psychological Sun inspires an atavistic pilgrimage. This\u0000 chapter studies the role of the Sun in each novel, where it serves to inspire a quest\u0000 for a form of individuation. I argue that Ballard’s Sun is a transcendental engine that\u0000 drives individual psychic integration, while Harris’s is a gateway into a metaphysical\u0000 realm of spiritual unity. In each case, the Sun is the focus of a modern mythological\u0000 method.","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125003309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}