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- Presents overview of early-modern cosmology with an interdisciplinary approach
- Offers in-depth analysis of the interconnections between epistemological, scientific and metaphysical concepts
- Brings new insights to the image of the world emerging in the rise of modern science
Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (LEUS, volume 56)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This volume addresses the history and epistemology of early modern cosmology. The authors reconstruct the development of cosmological ideas in the age of ‘scientific revolution’ from Copernicus to Leibniz, taking into account the growth of a unified celestial-and-terrestrial mechanics. The volume investigates how, in the rise of the new science, cosmology displayed deep and multifaceted interrelations between scientific notions (stemming from mechanics, mathematics, geometry, astronomy) and philosophical concepts. These were employed to frame a general picture of the universe, as well as to criticize and interpret scientific notions and observational data.
This interdisciplinary work reconstructs a conceptual web pervaded by various intellectual attitudes and drives. It presents an historical–epistemological unified itinerary which includes Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Huygens, Newton and Leibniz. For each of the scientists and philosophers, a presentation and commentary is made of their cosmological views, and where relevant, outlines of their most relevant physical concepts are given. Furthermore, the authors highlight the philosophical and epistemological implications of their scientific works. This work is helpful both as a synthetic overview of early modern cosmology, and an analytical exposition of the elements that were intertwined in early-modern cosmology. This book addresses historians, philosophers, and scientists and can also be used as a research source book by post-graduate students in epistemology, history of science and history of philosophy.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici e del Patrimonio Culturale, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
Paolo Bussotti
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Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Formazione, Comunicazione e Società, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
Brunello Lotti
About the authors
Paolo Bussotti is Associate Professor in History of Science and Techniques at the University of Udine (Italy). His research areas are history of science and mathematics, in particular history of geometry and number theory between the 17th and the 19th centuries, and history of physics and astronomy in the 17th century. He is the author of more than 100 scientific publications, among which a monograph on the history of the method of infinite descent (number theory), From Fermat to Gauss. Indefinite descent and methods of reduction in Number Theory (2006) and one on Leibniz’s planetary theory, The complex itinerary of Leibniz’s planetary theory (2015). He is the co-author (jointly with prof. R. Pisano) of many papers on the Geneva Edition of Newton’s Principia published in important journals dedicated to the history of science. He is reviewer for leading scientific journals as the Zentralblatt für Mathematik.
Brunello Lotti is Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Udine (Italy). His research interests on early modern British philosophy focus on the relations between natural philosophy, metaphysics and theology, including the history of platonism, the reception of Cartesian scepticism and mechanicism, and the issue of the origin of motion. He is author of the monographs Ralph Cudworth e l’idea di natura plastica (2004), L’iperbole del dubbio. Lo scetticismo cartesiano nella filosofia inglese tra Sei e Settecento (2010), “Spiritus intus alit”. La ricezione di un luogo filosofico virgiliano nel pensiero moderno (2021). He coedited Scienza e teologia fra Seicento e Ottocento. Studi in memoria di Maurizio Mamiani (2006), and Eredità cartesiane nella cultura britannica (2011). His articles and essays cover several authors in early modern British philosophy, from the Cambridge Platonists to Locke and Berkeley.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cosmology in the Early Modern Age: A Web of Ideas
Authors: Paolo Bussotti, Brunello Lotti
Series Title: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12195-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12194-4Published: 06 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12197-5Published: 07 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12195-1Published: 05 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2214-9775
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9783
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 328
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Philosophy, Cosmology, Epistemology