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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
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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

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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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