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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Edward Grant, Edward (Professor Emeritus Grant
• Con la collaborazione di: Edward Grant (Editore), Grant Edward (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 29.05.1981
• EAN: 9780521229838
• ISBN: 978-0-521-22983-8
• Pagine: 472
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Fisica, astronomia > Fisica teorica; SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Physics / Relativity, History of Science