UNIFYING HEAVEN AND EARTH

One of the most significant events in the history of Western civilization was the cosmological revolution of the 16th and 17th centu ries. Among the most salient factors in this change, described by Alexandre Koyré as the ?destruction of the cosmos' inherited from ancient Greece, were Copernican heliocentrism and the substitution of a homogeneous universe for the hierarchical cosmos of the Plat onic and Aristotelian tradition. Starting with a new approach to the issue of the presence of Islamic astronomical devices in Copern icus' wor...[Llegir més]