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Physics, Cosmology and Astronomy, 1300–1700: Tension and Accommodation

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Sabetai Unguru

    1. Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 126)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Ancient Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Images of Plato in Late Antiquity

      • John Glucker
      Pages 3-18

    3. Hunches that did not come off: Some Problems in Greek Science

      • Abraham Wasserstein
      Pages 19-44

  3. Islamic and Jewish Contributions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. (AL-)Chemical Foundations for Cosmological Ideas: IBN Sînâ on the Geology of an Eternal World

      • Gad Freudenthal
      Pages 47-73

    3. Levi Ben Gerson: On Astronomy and Physical Experiments

      • Bernard R. Goldstein
      Pages 75-82

    4. The Astronomy of Rabbi Moses Isserles

      • Y. Tzvi Langermann
      Pages 83-98

  4. Medieval Cosmology, Natural Philosophy, and Optics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Celestial Incorruptibility in Medieval Cosmology 1200–1687

      • Edward Grant
      Pages 101-127

    3. The Oxford Calculators and Mathematical Physics: John Dumbleton’s Summa Logicae et Philosophiae Naturalis, Parts II and III

      • Edith D. Sylla
      Pages 129-161

    4. Experiment in Medieval Optics

      • Sabetai Unguru
      Pages 163-181

  5. Kepler: Cosmology, Astronomy, and Light

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. The New Celestial Physics of Johannes Kepler

      • Fritz Krafft
      Pages 185-227

    3. Kepler and the Incorporeality of Light

      • David C. Lindberg
      Pages 229-250

  6. Science, Religion, and Political Power

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251
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    2. One Truth or More? Demarcation in the Universe of Discourse

      • John D. North
      Pages 253-293

    3. Science at the Tuscan Court, 1642–1667

      • Michael Segre
      Pages 295-308

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 309-327
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About this book

Habent sua Jata colloquia. The present volume has its ongms in a spring 1984 international workshop held, under the auspices of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, by The Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas of Tel-Aviv University in cooperation with The Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation. It contains twelve of the twenty papers presented at the workshop by the twenty-six participants. As Proceedings of conferences go, it is a good representative of the genre, sharing in the main characteristics of its ilk. It may even be one of the rare instances of a book of Proceed­ ings whose descriptive title applies equally well to the workshop's topic and to the interrelations between. the various papers it includes. Tension and Accommodation are the key words. Thus, while John Glucker's paper, 'Images of Plato in Late Antiqu­ ity,' raises, by means of the Platonic example, the problem of interpreta­ tion of ancient texts, suggesting the assignment of proper weight to the creator of the tradition and not only to his many later interpreters in assessing the proper relationship between originator and commentators, Abraham Wasserstein's 'Hunches that did not come off: Some Prob­ lems in Greek Science' illustrates the long-lived Whiggish tradition in the history of science and mathematics. As those familiar with my work will undoubtedly note, Wasserstein's position is far removed from my stance on ancient Greek mathematics.

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  • Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

    Sabetai Unguru

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