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One of the key moments of the Scientific Revolution was the transformation in the understanding of the earth s form. The world as we now understand it spherical and mostly rock with shallow oceans was novel and controversial. Most scholars around 1500 believed the world was mostly ocean with a small sphere of land floating in it like a bobbing apple. Crucial to the work of key thinkers such as Copernicus, Galileo and Descartes, the new theory of the earth had important implications for astronomy and the universe as a whole. Remarkably, the importance of this dramatic change in concepts of the…mehr

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One of the key moments of the Scientific Revolution
was the
transformation in the understanding of the earth s
form. The
world as we now understand it spherical and mostly
rock with
shallow oceans was novel and controversial. Most
scholars around
1500 believed the world was mostly ocean with a small
sphere of land
floating in it like a bobbing apple. Crucial to the
work of key thinkers
such as Copernicus, Galileo and Descartes, the new
theory of the earth
had important implications for astronomy and the
universe as a whole.
Remarkably, the importance of this dramatic change in
concepts of the
earth has been overlooked by historians, as has the
vibrant scientific
field in which the developments both of geography and
astronomy took
place: cosmography. This book restores the period s
changing ideas
about the earth and its continents, and still more
importantly
cosmography, into the centre of the Scientific
Revolution.
Autorenporträt
Jacqueline Biro is a senior policy analyst for the Australian
state government, with
recent roles in urban water, health and natural resources. In
addition to her graduate
work in history and philosophy of science she holds
qualifications in political economy
and communications.