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Duhem, Pierre, Medieval Cosmology: Theories of Infinity, Place, Time, Void, and the Plurality of Worlds, edited and translated by Roger Ariew, Chicago - Londres, The University of Chicago Press, 1985, xxxi + 601 pp.
- Resum
- This abridged version of Le systeme du monde, the classic ten-volume history of the physical sciences written by the great French physicist Pierre Duhem (1861-1916), focus on cosmology, Duhem's greatest interest. By reconsidering the work of such Arab and Christian scholars as Averroes, Avicenna, Gregory of Rimini, Albert of Saxony, Nicole Oresme, Duns Scotus, and William of Occam, Duhem demonstrated the sophistication of medieval science and cosmology.
Contents:
* Foreword / Stanley L. Jaki
* Preface
-- Part I: The Two Infinites
* 1. Infinitely Small and Infinitely Large (VII, 3-88)
* 2. Infinitely Large (VII, 89-157)
* 3. Infinity in Fifteenth-Century Cosmology: Paul of Venice (X, 392-96)
-- Part II: Place
* 4. Theory of Place before the Condemnations of 1277 (VII, 158-202)
* 5. Theory of Place from the Condemnations of 1277 to the End of the Fourteenth Century (VII, 202-302)
* 6. Place in Fifteenth-Century Cosmology
-- Part III: Time
* 7. Time (VII, 363-411)
* 8. Time in Fifteenth-Century Cosmology
-- Part IV: Void
* 9. Void and Movement in the Void (VIII, 7-60)
* 10. Void in Fifteenth-Century Cosmology
-- Part V: The Plurality of Worlds
* 11. The Problem of the Plurality of Worlds in Peripatetic Philosophy (I, 230-41)
* 12. The Problem of the Plurality of Worlds in Scholastic Philosophy (IX, 363-430)
* 13. The Plurality of Worlds in Fifteenth-Century Cosmology
-- Bibliography of Works Cited by Duhem (with References to Modern Editions and English Translations)
-- Abridged Duhem Bibliography: Historical and Philosophical Works
-- Abridged Bibliography of Works on Medieval Physical Sciences after Dunhem
- Matèries
- Història de la ciència
Cosmologia
Astronomia i astrologia
- Notes
- "This is an abridged edition in English translation of Le système du monde: histoire des doctrines cosmologiques de Platon à Copernic, originally published in ten volumes... by Hermann ... Paris" [contraportada].
Reimpr. en rústica: 1987.
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