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From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (POD)

ISBN-13: 9780801803475
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Alexandre Koyre
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Local release date: 14/12/1968
Format: Paperback 328 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: History of science [PDX]

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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a radical change occurred in the patterns and the framework of European thought. In the wake of discoveries through the telescope and Copernican theory, the notion of an ordered cosmos of 'fixed stars' gave way to that of a universe infinite in both time and space -- with significant and far-reaching consequences for human thought. Alexandre Koyr+® interprets this revolution in terms of the change that occurred in our conception of the universe and our place in it and shows the primacy of this change in the development of the modern world.

Contents:
Preface
IntroductionI. The Sky and the Heavens
Nicholas of Cusa and Marcellus PaligeniusII. The New Astronomy and the New Metaphysics
N. Copernicus, Th. Digges, G. Bruno and W. GilbertIII. The New Astronomy against the New Metaphysics
Johannes Kelper's rejection of InfinityIV. Things Never Seen Before and Thoughts Never Thought: The Discovery of New Stars in the World Space and the Materialization of Space
Galileo and DescartesV. Indefinite Extension or Infinite Space
Descartes and Henry MoreVI. God and Space, Spirit and Matter
Henry MoreVII. Absolute Space, Absolute Time and Their Relations
Malebranche, Newton and BentleyVIII. The Divinization of Space
Joseph RaphsonIX. God and the World: Space, Matter, Ether and Spirit
Isaac NewtonX. Absolute Space and Absolute Time: God's Frame of Action
Berkeley and NewtonXI. The Work-Day God and the God of the Sabbath
Newton and LeibnizXII. Conclusion: The Divine Artifex and the Dieu FainéantNotes
Index

""Surely a work that will be welcomed alike by the scientist, philosopher, and historian of ideas.""

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