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Klappentext Edward Grant describes the extraordinary range of themes! ideas and arguments that constituted scholastic cosmology from around 1200 to 1700. Zusammenfassung Edward Grant describes the extraordinary range of themes! ideas! and arguments that constituted scholastic cosmology for approximately five hundred years! from around 1200 to 1700. Primary emphasis is placed on the world as a whole! what might lie beyond it! and the celestial region! which extended from the Moon to the outermost convex surface of the cosmos. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: scope! sources! and social context; 1. Pierre Duhem! Medieval cosmology and the scope of the present day; 2. The sources of cosmology in the late Middle Ages; 3. The social and institutional matrix of scholastic cosmology; Part I. The Cosmos as a Whole and What! if Anything! Lies Beyond: 4. Is the world eternal! without beginning or end?; 5. The creation of the world; 6. The finitude! shape! and place of the world; 7. The perfection of the world; 8. The possibility of other worlds; 9. Extracosmic void space; Part II. The Celestial Region: 10. The incorruptibility of the celestial region; 11. Celestial perfection; 12. On celestial matter: can it exist in a changeless state?; 13. The mobile celestial orbs: concentrics! eccentrics! and epicycles; 14. Are the heavens composed of hard orbs or a fluid substance?; 15. The immobile orb of the cosmos: the empyrean heaven; 16. Celestial light; 17. The properties and qualities of celestial bodies! and the dimensions of the world; 18. On celestial motions and their causes; 19. The influence of the celestial region on the terrestrial; 20. The earth and its cosmic relations: size! centrality! shape! and immobility; Conclusion: Five centuries of scholastic cosmology; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
