Provides a description of the major ideas about void space within and beyond the world that were formulated between the fourteenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Provides a description of the major ideas about void space within and beyond the world that were formulated between the fourteenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Preface Part I. Intracosmic Space: Scope of study 1. Aristotle on void space 2. Medieval conceptions of the nature and properties of void space 3. The possibility of motion in void space 4. Nature's abhorrence of a vacuum Part II. Infinite Void Space Beyond the World: Largely a theological problem 5. The historical roots of the medieval concept of an infinite, extracosmic void space 6. Late medieval conceptions of extracosmic ('imaginary') void space 7. Extracosmic, infinite void space in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scholastic thought 8. Infinite space in nonscholastic thought during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Part III. Summary and Reflections: 9. Summary and reflections Notes Bibliography Index.
Preface Part I. Intracosmic Space: Scope of study 1. Aristotle on void space 2. Medieval conceptions of the nature and properties of void space 3. The possibility of motion in void space 4. Nature's abhorrence of a vacuum Part II. Infinite Void Space Beyond the World: Largely a theological problem 5. The historical roots of the medieval concept of an infinite, extracosmic void space 6. Late medieval conceptions of extracosmic ('imaginary') void space 7. Extracosmic, infinite void space in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scholastic thought 8. Infinite space in nonscholastic thought during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Part III. Summary and Reflections: 9. Summary and reflections Notes Bibliography Index.
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