Unifying heaven and Earth : essays in the history of early modern cosmology
Miguel Ángel Granada
Broschiertes Buch

Unifying heaven and Earth : essays in the history of early modern cosmology

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One of the most significant events in the history of Western civilization was the cosmological revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries. Among the most salient factors in this change, described by Alexandre Koyré as the ?destruction of the cosmos? inherited from ancient Greece, were Copernican heliocentrism and the substitution of a homogeneous universe for the hierarchical cosmos of the Platonic and Aristotelian tradition. Starting with a new approach to the issue of the presence of Islamic astronomical devices in Copernicus? work and a thorough reappraisal of the cosmological views of Para...