It's All Greek : Three of Kepler's Book Titles
| Název česky | Vše řecky : tři tituly Keplerových děl |
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| Autoři | |
| Rok publikování | 2021 |
| Druh | Článek v odborném periodiku |
| Časopis / Zdroj | Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
| Citace | |
| www | webová stránka ročníku 24 (2021) |
| Klíčová slova | Kepler; Greek; learned Neo-Latin; Dioptrice; Harmonice mundi; Astronomia nova aitiologetos; the word aitiologetos |
| Popis | Three of Kepler’s major works have Greek words in their titles: Astronomia nova "aitiologétos", Dioptrice, and Harmonice mundi. We perform a linguistic analysis, examine the usage of Greek terms in Neo-Latin literature, and conjecture Kepler’s particular reasons for including these words prominently in his book titles. In particular, we show why the letter ‘c’ in dioptrice and harmonice should be pronounced as a hard ‘k’, and that the abbreviated title should be Harmonice and not harmonices. We pay special attention to Kepler’s neologism "aitiologétos", examining its general context and the potential sources of Kepler’s inspiration. We suggest that its least unfaithful English translation is ‘etiological’. |
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