Representing space in the scientific revolution / David Marshall Miller.
- Miller, David Marshall
- Date:
- 2014
- Books
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Description
"The novel understanding of the physical world that characterized the scientific revolution depended on a fundamental shift in the way its protagonists understood and described space. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, spatial phenomena were described in relation to a presupposed central point; by its end, space had become a centerless void in which phenomena could only be described by reference to arbitrary orientations"-- Provided by publisher.
Publication/Creation
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Physical description
xiii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents
Introduction: centers and orientations -- Pluribus ergo existentibus centris: explanations, descriptions, and Copernicus -- Non est motus omnino: Gilbert, verticity, and the law of the whole -- Respicere sinus: Kepler, oriented Space, and the ellipse -- Mille movimenti circolari: from Impetus to conserved curvilinear motion in Galileo -- Directions sont entre elles paralleles: Descartes and his critics on oriented space and the parallelogram rule -- Incline it to verge: Newton's spatial synthesis -- Conclusion: methodological morals.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineAAB.AA6Open shelves
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ISBN
- 1107046734
- 9781107046733