Cosmology in the early modern era : a web of ideas / Paolo Bussotti, Brunello Lotti.
Bussotti, Paolo, author.; Lotti, Brunello, author.
2022
QB981
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Title
Cosmology in the early modern era : a web of ideas / Paolo Bussotti, Brunello Lotti.
Author
Bussotti, Paolo, author.
ISBN
9783031121951 (electronic bk.)
3031121953 (electronic bk.)
3031121945
9783031121944
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12195-1
Published
Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxii, 328 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-12195-1 doi
Call Number
QB981
Dewey Decimal Classification
523.109032
Summary
This volume addresses the history and epistemology of early modern cosmology as a paradigmatic example of the intersections of scientific theories and philosophical issues. The authors reconstruct the development of cosmological ideas in the age of the scientific revolution from Copernicus to Leibniz, taking into account the growth of a unified celestial-and-terrestrial mechanics. The volume investigates how, in the rise of the new science, cosmology displayed deep and multifaceted interrelations between philosophical concepts and scientific notions stemming from mechanics, mathematics and astronomy. Philosophical ideas were often employed to frame a general picture of the universe, as well as to criticize and interpret scientific notions and observational data. This interdisciplinary work reconstructs a conceptual web pervaded by various intellectual attitudes and drives. It presents a historical-epistemological itinerary which includes Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Huygens, Newton and Leibniz. For each of these authors, a presentation and commentary of their cosmological views is provided, and outlines of their most relevant physical concepts are given. Furthermore, the philosophical and epistemological implications of their scientific works are highlighted. The purpose of this work is to unravel the complex intertwining of the different aspects that characterized the emergence of a new view of the universe in the early modern centuries.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Lotti, Brunello, author.
Series
Logic, epistemology and the unity of science ; v. 56.
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COSMOLOGY IN THE EARLY MODERN AGE.
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Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. The elements of a cosmological model
Chapter 2. Copernicus astronomical revolution
Chapter 3. Kepler: the cosmographer par excellence
Chapter 4.Galileo and the spread of the Copernican system
Chapter 5. Descartes and the new mechanistic paradigm
Chapter 6. Huygens: the greatest Cartesian scientist
Chapter 7. Newton and his system of the world
Chapter 8. Leibniz: the philosopher-scientist
Conclusion
Bibliography
Glossary of the Technical Terms
Index of Subjects
Index of Figures
Index of Names.

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