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Scientific accounts of the universe from antiquity to Kepler

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2009

Olaf Pedersen
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Abstract

The paper describes very briefly the development of theoretical accounts of the system of the world from Antiquity to Kepler. It shows how all the three great scientific traditions—the Aristotelian, the Platonic and the Archimedean—have been active throughout this history. There is no single ‘scientific’ approach to the phenomena of nature.

Type
Focus—Structure of the Universe
Information
European Review , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , April 1994 , pp. 125 - 140
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 1994

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It is not possible to provide a general survey of this kind with a complete list of notes and references. Most of the documentation can be gathered from the detailed bibliography published in Pederson, O. (1993) Early Physics and Astronomy: A Historical Introduction, Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar