2014
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9781107110656
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Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution

Abstract: 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. David Marshall Miller examines both the historical and philosophical aspects of … Show more

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“…20 19 Another point that was important to Copernicus was that the Ptolemaists had, with the deployment of eccentrics, departed from the Aristotelian principle of uniform motion. For a highly interesting discussion see (Miller 2014). 20 For a detailed discussion see also (Janssen 2002a).…”
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“…20 19 Another point that was important to Copernicus was that the Ptolemaists had, with the deployment of eccentrics, departed from the Aristotelian principle of uniform motion. For a highly interesting discussion see (Miller 2014). 20 For a detailed discussion see also (Janssen 2002a).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…3 Koyré 1957, viii. 4 See for example Mamiani 1979;Peterschmitt 2013;Miller 2014. For an approach that covers the period from the 12th to the 16th centuries, and a closer approximation to the aims of this book, see Suarez-Nani, Ribordy and Petagine 2017.…”
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