Related subjects » Astronomy, Observations and Techniques - Epistemology & Philosophy of Science - History & Philosophical Foundations of Physics - History of Mathematical Sciences
Table of contents
One.- Ancient Background.- Images of Plato In Late Antiquity.- Hunches That did not come off: Some Problems in Greek Science.- Two.- Islamic and Jewish Contributions.- (Al-)Chemical Foundations For Cosmo-Logical Ideas: Ibn Sînâ on the Geology of an Eternal World.- Levi ben Gerson: On Astronomy and Physical Experiments.- The Astronomy of Rabbi Moses Isserles.- Three.- Medieval Cosmology, Natural Philosophy, and Optics.- Celestial Incorruptibility in Medieval Cosmology 1200–1687.- The Oxford Calculators and Mathematical Physics: John Dumbleton’s Summa Logicae et Philosophiae Naturalis, Parts II and III.- Experiment in Medieval Optics.- Four.- Kepler: Cosmology, Astronomy, and Light.- The New Celestial Physics of Johannes Kepler.- Kepler and the Incorporeality of Light.- Five.- Science, Religion, and Political Power.- One Truth Or More? Demarcation in the Universe of Discourse.- Science At The Tuscan Court, 1642–1667.- Notes on Contributors.- Name Index.