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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Boner, Patrick J.

Titel

Introduction

Ist Teil von

• Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology, 2010, p.1-6

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The history of cosmology in medieval and early modern Europe involves an interdisciplinary array of scholars who redefined the nature and knowability of the world. The papers in this volume focus primarily on astronomers who put forward new ways of relating the heavens and earth and our role as cosmic actors. Together, they represent a rich variety of views that brought the heavens and earth closer together as new forms of cosmic continuity reflected new forms of knowledge.1 More than a monolithic response to scholastic philosophy, these views suggest a growing number of voices that spoke to the essence and structure of the cosmos as a whole. Johannes Kepler, among “a new breed of astronomers” who studied the science of the stars in concert with cosmology,2 is a radical example of this emerging enterprise of cosmic synthesis.