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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgements
Preface
Part 1: Knowledge and Cosmos: Development of the Medieval Perspective
Section 1: Faith and Reason: Theories of Cognition and the Medieval Intellectual Background
Introduction to Section 1
Chapter 1: Plato and Aristotle
Chapter 2: Late Antiquity: The Platonic Philosophical Strain
Chapter 3: Islamicate Philosophical Syncretism
Chapter 4: High Scholasticism and the Universities: Aristotelian Thought Re‑enters Western
Europe
Chapter 5: William of Ockham and the 14th Century Critique of Human Knowledge
Section Two. The Heavens: Astronomy, Cosmology, and Astrology
Chapter 6: Development of Astronomy: A Mathematico-Descriptive Approach to Heavenly
Phenomena
Chapter 7: The Teleological-Mechanical Cosmos of Aristotle and Its Influence on Medieval
Natural Philosophy
Chapter 8: Astrological Causation and the Occultist Interpretation of Heavenly Bodies and Their
Influences
Chapter 9: Classical Atomism: A Mechanical Philosophy
Chapter 10: Aristotelian Conceptions of Materiality and the Teleological Mode
Chapter 11: Alchemy
Section 4: Conceptions of Motion
Chapter 12: Projectile Motion: Aristotle and His Critics
Chapter 13: Falling Bodies: Aristotle and His Critics
Chapter 14: Emergence of a Kinematic Approach to Motion
Part II: Knowledge and Cosmos: Decline of the Medieval Perspective
Introduction to Part II
Section Five: The “Revolution” in Astronomy
Chapter 15: Copernicus
Chapter 16: Responses to Copernicus
Chapter 17: Kepler
Section 6: Galileo Galilei Between World Views
Introduction to Section 6
Chapter 18: Galileo and Astronomy: Conflict Over World Systems
Chapter 19: Galileo and the Science of Motion: Physical Justification for a Moving Earth
Chapter 20: The Galilean Approach to Explication of Physical Process
Chapter 21: Galileo and the Nature of Materiality
Epilogue: Demise of the Medieval Perspective
Bibliography
Index
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