From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a radical change occurred in the patterns and the 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 Koyré interprets this revolution in terms of the change that occurred 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.

ISBN:	9780801803475
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Published date:	10 Jan 1968
DEWEY:	113
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	313
Weight:	378g
Height:	203mm
Width:	128mm
Spine width:	22mm

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