Essay Review: A Poetics of the Cosmos: The Poetic Structure of the World: Copernicus and Kepler

Duhem Pierre Koyré Alexandre Panofsky Erwin Koenigsberger Dorothy Yates Frances Jardine Nicholas Gingerich Owen , and some of my own early writings.

Pepper's Stephen World hypotheses (1942); White's Hayden Metahistory (1973); Eco's Umberto A theory of semiotics (1976); Greimas's Algirdas On meaning: Selected writings in semiotic theory (1987); Ricœur's Paul The rule of metaphor (1975); and Genette's Gerard Palimpsestes (1982); Reiss's Timothy The discourse of Modernism (1982). See the recent, excellent essay review of Hallyn by Clark William , “Poetics for scientists”, Studies in history and philosophy of science, xxiii (1992), 181–92.

“… interested in assembling parts to describe specific phenomena rather than in the organic unity of the whole” (p. 153).

Hallyn offers here an unpersuasive, generic reference to Redondi's Pietro Galileo eretico (1983).

See Westman Robert S. , “Nature, art, and psyche: Jung, Pauli and the Kepler-Fludd polemic”, in Vickers Brian (ed.), Occult and scientific mentalities in the Renaissance (Cambridge, 1984), 177–229.