Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
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Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution

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Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781107046733
eBook ISBN
9781316056684
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Modern Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Figures
  8. Preface
  9. Note on texts
  10. Chapter 1 Introduction: centers and orientations
  11. Chapter 2 Pluribus ergo existentibus centris: explanations, descriptions, and Copernicus
  12. Chapter 3 Non est motus omnino: Gilbert, verticity, and the Law of the Whole
  13. Chapter 4 Respicere sinus: Kepler, oriented space, and the ellipse
  14. Chapter 5 Mille movimenti circolari: from impetus to conserved curvilinear motion in Galileo
  15. Chapter 6 Directions sont entre elles paralleles: Descartes and his critics on oriented space and the parallelogram rule
  16. Chapter 7 Incline it to verge: Newton’s spatial synthesis
  17. Chapter 8 Conclusion: methodological morals
  18. References
  19. Index