Representing space in the scientific revolution
1. Introduction: centers and orientations -- 2. Pluribus ergo existentibus centris: explanations, descriptions, and Copernicus -- 3. Non est motus omnino: Gilbert, verticity, and the law of the whole -- 4. Respicere sinus: Kepler, oriented Space, and the ellipse -- 5. Mille movimenti circolari: from...
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Cambridge
Cambridge Univ. Press
2014
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Science
> History
> Philosophy
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> Naturwissenschaften
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| Zusammenfassung: | 1. Introduction: centers and orientations -- 2. Pluribus ergo existentibus centris: explanations, descriptions, and Copernicus -- 3. Non est motus omnino: Gilbert, verticity, and the law of the whole -- 4. Respicere sinus: Kepler, oriented Space, and the ellipse -- 5. Mille movimenti circolari: from Impetus to conserved curvilinear motion in Galileo -- 6. Directions sont entre elles paralleles: Descartes and his critics on oriented space and the parallelogram rule -- 7. Incline it to verge: Newton's spatial synthesis -- 8. Conclusion: methodological morals The novel understanding of the physical world that characterized the Scientific Revolution depended on a fundamental shift in the way its protagonists understood and described space. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, spatial phenomena were described in relation to a presupposed central point; by its end, space had become a centerless void in which phenomena could only be described by reference to arbitrary orientations. David Marshall Miller examines both the historical and philosophical aspects of this far-reaching development, including the rejection of the idea of heavenly spheres, the advent of rectilinear inertia, and the theoretical contributions of Copernicus, Gilbert, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, and Newton. His rich study shows clearly how the centered Aristotelian cosmos became the oriented Newtonian universe, and will be of great interest to students and scholars of the history and philosophy of science |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Author: David Marshall Miller (Iowa State University) |
| Beschreibung: | XIII, 235 S. graph. Darst. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781107046733 978-1-107-04673-3 1107046734 1-107-04673-4 |