Much Ado About Nothing - Theories of Space Vacuum From Middle Ages to Scientific Revolution

Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Intracosmic Space: Scope of study; 1. Aristotle on void space; 2. Medieval conceptions of the nature and properties of void space; 3. The possibility of motion in void space; 4. Nature's abhorrence of a vacuum; Part II. Infinite Void Space Beyond the World: Largely a theological problem; 5. The historical roots of the medieval concept of an infinite, extracosmic void space; 6. Late medieval conceptions of extracosmic ('imaginary') void space; 7. Extracosmic, infinite void space in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scholastic thought; 8. Infinite space in nonscholastic thought during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Part III. Summary and Reflections: 9. Summary and reflections; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Edward Grant, Edward (Professor Emeritus Grant
• Assisted by: Edward Grant (Editor), Grant Edward (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.05.1981
• EAN: 9780521229838
• ISBN: 978-0-521-22983-8
• No. of pages: 472
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Physics / Relativity, History of Science