Program

Research Programs: Humanities, Science, and Technology

Period of Performance

1/1/1992 - 12/31/1994

Funding Totals

$96,000.00 (approved)
$95,966.87 (awarded)


Kepler's Unification of Physics and Astronomy

FAIN: RH-20985-91

Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA 24061-2000)
Peter Barker (Project Director: October 1990 to August 1995)

To support a study of Johannes Kepler's accomplishments in astronomy and physics that will clarify the pivotal role of his thought in the transition from Renaissance humanism to modern science during the 16th and 17th centuries.