Planets, Stars, and Orbs : The Medieval Cosmos, 1200-1687
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'Professor Grant ploughs through this morass of mediaeval opinion and argument with unfailing zest and admirable rationality. His long history of time long past should be of lasting value to everyone interested in either scholasticism or cosmology.' Nature
'Grant's book is not only thorough and scholarly but is also eminently readable. The author has shown a masterly grasp of his subject. It will also be an absolute joy not only for astronomical and scientific historians but also for modern cosmologists.' The Observatory
Book Description
Medieval cosmology was a fusion of pagan Greek ideas and Biblical descriptions of the world, especially the creation account in Genesis. Planets, Stars, and Orbs describes medieval conceptions of the cosmos as understood by scholastic theologians and natural philosophers in the universities of western Europe from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Not only are the major ideas and arguments of medieval cosmology described and analysed, but much attention is paid to the responses of scholastic natural philosophers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the challenges posed by the new science and astronomy as represented by Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Galileo, and Kepler.
Planets, Stars, and Orbs: The Medieval Cosmos, 1200-1687,Edward Grant,Cambridge University Press,052156509X,Astronomy - General,Astronomy - Universe,Cosmology (Astronomy),History,History Of Astronomy,Science,Science/Mathematics,Cosmology & the universe,History of science,Science / History
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