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Edward Grant
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Cambridge Univ Pr
Publication date
June 1, 1996
Pages
816
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780521565097
ISBN-10
052156509X
Dimensions
1.50 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight
2.60 lbs.
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Out of Print
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$36.00
Other format details
university press
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: Medieval cosmology was a fusion of pagan Greek ideas and biblical descriptions of the world, especially the creation account in Genesis. Because cosmology was based on discussions of the relevant works of Aristotle, primary responsibility for its study fell to scholastic theologians and natural philosophers in the universities of western Europe from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century. Edward Grant describes the extraordinary range of themes, ideas, and arguments that constituted scholastic cosmology for approximately five hundred years, from around 1200 to 1700. Primary emphasis is placed on the world as a whole, what might lie beyond it, and the celestial region, which extended from the Moon to the outermost convex surface of the cosmos. Another important aspect of this study is how natural philosophers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries responded to the new interpretations of a heliocentric instead of a geoheliocentric Aristotelian cosmology.
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Hardcover
from Cambridge Univ Pr (February 1, 1994); titled "Planets, Stars, and Orbs: The Medieval Cosmos, 1200-1687"
9780521433440 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.75 in. | 2.80 lbs | List price $99.99
About: Medieval cosmology was a fusion of pagan Greek ideas and biblical descriptions of the world, especially the creation account in Genesis.
About: Medieval cosmology was a fusion of pagan Greek ideas and biblical descriptions of the world, especially the creation account in Genesis.
Paperback
1 edition from Cambridge Univ Pr (July 23, 2009); titled "Planets, Stars, & Orbs: The Medieval Cosmos, 1200-1687"
9780521138680 | details & prices | 816 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 2.00 in. | 2.85 lbs | List price $89.99
About: Medieval cosmology was a fusion of pagan Greek ideas and biblical descriptions of the world, especially the creation account in Genesis.
About: Medieval cosmology was a fusion of pagan Greek ideas and biblical descriptions of the world, especially the creation account in Genesis.
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Reprint edition from Cambridge Univ Pr (June 1, 1996)
9780521565097 | details & prices | 816 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 2.60 lbs | List price $36.00
About: Medieval cosmology was a fusion of pagan Greek ideas and biblical descriptions of the world, especially the creation account in Genesis.
About: Medieval cosmology was a fusion of pagan Greek ideas and biblical descriptions of the world, especially the creation account in Genesis.
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