| Description |
xiii, 456 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Part I. Intracosmic Space: 1. Aristotle on void space -- 2. Medieval conceptions of the nature and properties of void space -- 3. The possibility of motion in void space -- 4. Nature's abhorrence of a vacuum -- Part II. Infinite Void Space Beyond the World: 5. The historical roots of the medieval concept of an infinite, extracosmic void space -- 6. late medieval conceptions of extracosmic ('imaginary') void space -- 7. Extracosmic, infinite void space in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scholastic thought -- 8. Infinite space in nonscholastic thought during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Part III. Summary and Reflections: 9. Summary and reflections -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Analysis |
Geschichte |
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Science History |
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Science Philosophy |
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Science, Medieval |
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Space and time History |
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Vacuum History |
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Space Theories to ca 1720 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 419-437 |
| Notes |
Online version of the print title |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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System requirements: Internet connectivity, World Wide Web browser, and Adobe Acrobat reader |
| Subject |
Science -- History.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science, Medieval.
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Space and time -- History.
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Vacuum -- History.
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Science -- history.
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| LC no. |
80013876 |
| ISBN |
0521229839 |
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