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Title: From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe by Alexandre Koyre ISBN: 0-8018-0347-0 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: the european colloquy for all time and space
Comment: Readers of this book beware, its themes are huge! It contains lucid narrative of the competition from Cartesians to Newtonians for the best model of the universe and the nature of time and space. There are scarcely any baggy corners into which the reader will turn unwillingly. However, there is not terribly much about the science or the methods of discovery employed by these thinkers in their shared pursuit of important results. Koyre has written a classic study of intellectual history. Discussion of divinity and its aspects is abundant because this presence was one that the scientists were working diligently to situate without offending the authorities and employers of the age. The universe is a source whose study has profoundly metaphysical and ontological implications. Koyre brings these alive for the reader and shares the tumult of ideas that produced much of what we consider now to be a satisfactory vision of the universe.
Rating: 5
Summary: Intellectual Elegance Defined
Comment: Korye's decades-old book is still a pleasure and a marvel to read. The ideas developed in this first-rate work are lucidly and extensively developed and contain such subtle gems of thought that one could not possibly discover all of them with a single reading. Anyone with even but a passing interest in the history and philosophy of science should add this book to his library. A true classic!
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Title: The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science by Edwin A. Burtt, E. A. Burtt ISBN: 0486425517 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy ISBN: 0674361539 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1970 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought by Thomas S. Kuhn ISBN: 0674171039 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1957 List Price(USD): $13.45 |
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Title: The History of Science from Augustine to Galileo by A. C. Crombie ISBN: 0486288501 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Birth of a New Physics by I. Bernard Cohen ISBN: 0393300455 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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