The primary objective of this study is to provide a description of
the major ideas about void space within and beyond the world that
were formulated between the fourteenth and early eighteenth
centuries. The second part of the book - on infinite, extracosmic
void space - is of special significance. The significance of
Professor Grant's account is twofold: it provides a comprehensive
and detailed description of the scholastic Aristotelian arguments
for and against the existence of void space; and it presents (again
for the first time) an analysis of the possible influence of
scholastic ideas and arguments on the interpretations of space
proposed by the nonscholastic authors who made the Scientific
Revolution possible. The concluding chapter of the book is unique
in not only describing the conceptualizations of space proposed by
the makers of the Scientific Revolution, but in assessing the role
of readily available scholastic ideas on the conception of space
adopted for the Newtonian world.
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