{"product_id":"knowledge-and-cosmos-9780761874003","title":"Knowledge and Cosmos","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1: Knowledge and Cosmos: Development of the Medieval Perspective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 1: Faith and Reason: Theories of Cognition and the Medieval Intellectual Background \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Section 1 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Plato and Aristotle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Late Antiquity: The Platonic Philosophical Strain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Islamicate Philosophical Syncretism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: High Scholasticism and the Universities: Aristotelian Thought Re‑enters Western\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEurope\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: William of Ockham and the 14th Century Critique of Human Knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection Two. The Heavens: Astronomy, Cosmology, and Astrology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Development of Astronomy: A Mathematico-Descriptive Approach to Heavenly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhenomena\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: The Teleological-Mechanical Cosmos of Aristotle and Its Influence on Medieval\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatural Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Astrological Causation and the Occultist Interpretation of Heavenly Bodies and Their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInfluences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Classical Atomism: A Mechanical Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Aristotelian Conceptions of Materiality and the Teleological Mode\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Alchemy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 4: Conceptions of Motion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Projectile Motion: Aristotle and His Critics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Falling Bodies: Aristotle and His Critics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Emergence of a Kinematic Approach to Motion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Knowledge and Cosmos: Decline of the Medieval Perspective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Part II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection Five: The “Revolution” in Astronomy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Copernicus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16: Responses to Copernicus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17: Kepler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 6: Galileo Galilei Between World Views\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Section 6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18: Galileo and Astronomy: Conflict Over World Systems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19: Galileo and the Science of Motion: Physical Justification for a Moving Earth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 20: The Galilean Approach to Explication of Physical Process\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 21: Galileo and the Nature of Materiality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Demise of the Medieval Perspective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hamilton Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037898408279,"sku":"9780761874003","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780761874003.jpg?v=1750938078","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/knowledge-and-cosmos-9780761874003","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}