Author: Koyre, Alexandre
Plastic-reinforced paperback
326 pages
Published: November 1994
The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 0801803470
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During the 16th and 17th centuries a radical change occurred in the patterns and framework of European thought. In the wake of discoveries through the telescope and Copernican theory, the notion of an ordered cosmos of fixed stars gave way to that of a universe infinite in both time and space--with significant and far-reaching consequences for human thought. Alexandre Koyre interpretsthis revolution in terms of the change that occurred in our conception of the universe, our place in it, and the primacy of this change in the development of the modern world. (Philosophy)During the 16th and 17th centuries, the notion of an ordered cosmos gave way to ideas of a universe infinite in both time and space. Koyre interprets this change in our conception of the universe and our place in it, and shows the primacy of this change in the development of the modern world.