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100 1 $aGrant, Edward,$d1926-2020.
245 10 $aPlanets, stars, and orbs :$bthe medieval cosmos, 1200-1687 /$cEdward Grant.
250 $a1st pbk. ed.
260 $aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1996.
300 $axxiii, 816 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 776-797) and index.
505 00 $aMachine generated contents note:$tIntroduction: Scope, Sources, and Social Context --$g1.$tPierre Duhem, medieval cosmology and the scope of the present study --$g2.$tsources of cosmology in the late Middle Ages --$g3.$tsocial and institutional matrix of scholastic cosmology --$gPt. I$tCosmos as a Whole and What, If Anything, Lies Beyond --$g4.$tIs the world eternal, without beginning or end? --$g5.$tcreation of the world --$g6.$tfinitude, shape, and place of the world --$g7.$tperfection of the world --$g8.$tpossibility of other worlds --$g9.$tExtracosmic void space --$gPt. II$tCelestial Region --$g10.$tincorruptibility of the celestial region --$g11.$tCelestial perfection --$g12.$tOn celestial matter: Can it exist in a changeless state? --$g13.$tmobile celestial orbs: concentrics, eccentrics, and epicycles --$g14.$tAre the heavens composed of hard orbs or a fluid substance? --$g15.$timmobile orb of the cosmos: the empyrean heaven --$g16.$tCelestial light --$g17.$tproperties and qualities of celestial bodies, and the dimensions of the world --$g18.$tOn celestial motions and their causes --$g19.$tinfluence of the celestial region on the terrestrial --$g20.$tearth and its cosmic relations: size, centrality, shape, and immobility --$tConclusion: Five centuries of scholastic cosmology --$tAppendix I: Catalog of Questions on Medieval Cosmology, 1200-1687 --$tAppendix II: The anatomy of medieval cosmology -- the significance of the "Catalog of Questions" in Appendix I.
520 $a"Medieval cosmology was a fusion of pagan Greek ideas and biblical descriptions of the world, especially the creation account in Genesis. Because cosmology was based on discussions of the relevant works of Aristotle, primary responsibility for its study fell to scholastic theologians and natural philosophers in the universities of western Europe from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century. The present work describes the extraordinary range of themes, ideas, and arguments that constituted scholastic cosmology for approximately five hundred years from around 1200 to 1700. Primary emphasis is placed on the world as a whole, what might lie beyond it, and the celestial region, which extended from the Moon to the outermost convex surface of the cosmos." "During the late Middle Ages (ca. 1200-1500), Aristotelian cosmology met little opposition or challenge. By the time rival interpretations appeared in the sixteenth century - for example, Platonism, atomism, Stoicism, Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, and especially Copernicanism - Aristotelian cosmology was firmly entrenched. By the seventeenth century, however, Copernican heliocentric cosmology and the geoheliocentric variant of it, proposed by Tycho Brahe, offered significant alternatives and thereby challenged medieval Aristotelian cosmology as never before. How scholastic natural philosophers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries responded to the new interpretations is an important aspect of this study." --Book Jacket.
650 0 $aCosmology, Medieval.
650 0 $aAstronomy, Medieval.
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650 7 $aCosmology, Medieval.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00880627
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650 7 $aKosmologie$2gnd
648 7 $aGeschichte 1200-1687.$2swd
653 0 $aCosmology (Astronomy)
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