Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology (Archimedes)

by PatrickJ.Boner (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $166.07

  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.