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Originally published in English in 1973. This volume traces the
development of the revolution which so drastically altered man's
view of the universe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The "astronomical revolution" was accomplished in three stages,
each linked with the work of one man. With Copernicus, the sun
became the centre of the universe. With Kepler, celestial dynamics
replaced the kinematics of circles and spheres used by Copernicus.
With Borelli the unification of celestial and terrestrial physics
was completed by abandonment of the circle in favour the straight
line to infinity.
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a radical change
occurred in the patterns and the framework of European thought. In
the wake of discoveries through the telescope and Copernican
theory, the notion of an ordered cosmos of "fixed stars" gave way
to that of a universe infinite in both time and space--with
significant and far-reaching consequences for human thought.
Alexandre Koyre interprets this revolution in terms of the change
that occurred in our conception of the universe and our place in it
and shows the primacy of this change in the development of the
modern world.
Transactions Of The American Philosophical Society, New Series,
V45, Part 4, 1955.
Transactions Of The American Philosophical Society, New Series,
V45, Part 4, 1955.
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