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Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution (Hardcover)
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Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution (Hardcover)
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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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