Main entry:

Koyré, Alexandre, 1892-1964, author.

Title & Author:

From the closed world to the infinite universe / Alexandre Koyré.

Edition:

Johns Hopkins paperback edition.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, 1968.
©1957

Description:

x, 313 pages ; 21 cm

Series:

Publications of the Institute of the History of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins University. Third series: The Hideyo Noguchi lectures ; v. 7

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sky and the heavens -- New astronomy and the new metaphysics -- New astronomy against the new metaphysics -- Things never seen before and thoughts never thought: the discovery of new stars in the world space and the materialization of space -- Indefinite extension or infinite space -- God and space, spirit and matter -- Absolute space, absolute time and their relations to god -- Divinzation of space -- God and the world: space, matter, ether, and spirit -- Absolute space and absolute time: god's frame of action -- Work-day god and the god of the sabbath -- Conclusion: the divine artifex and the dieu faineant.

Summary:

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a radical change occurred in the patterns and framework of European thought. The root and fruit of this revolution are modern science and modern philosophy. Dr. Koyré interprets this revolution in terms of the change that occurred in man's conception of his universe and of his own place in it and demonstrates the primacy of this change in the development of the modern world.

ISBN:

0801803470 (paperback)
9780801803475 (paperback)

Subject:

Cosmology.
Cosmologie.
cosmology.
Geschichte
Raum
Theorie

Added entries:

Publications of the Institute of the History of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins University. Third series, Hideyo Noguchi lectures ; v. 7.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 13644
Call No.: PO10685; ID:87-B1503
Status: Available