Planets, Stars, and Orbs

Planets, Stars, and Orbs
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Total Pages : 852
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ISBN-10 : 052156509X
ISBN-13 : 9780521565097
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Book Synopsis Planets, Stars, and Orbs by : Edward Grant

Download or read book Planets, Stars, and Orbs written by Edward Grant and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1996-07-13 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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