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Change and continuity in early modern cosmology

Seen as a flash point of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed an explosion of views about the function and structure of the world. This study explores these theories in a wide variety of settings, and challenges our view of modern science as the straightforward successor of Ar...

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Autor principal: Bonner, Patrick
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Springer 2011
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2277853
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Sumario:Seen as a flash point of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed an explosion of views about the function and structure of the world. This study explores these theories in a wide variety of settings, and challenges our view of modern science as the straightforward successor of Aristotelian natural philosophy.