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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aQC173.59.S65 _bG72 1981
082	0	0	_a530.1/1 _219
100	1		_aGrant, Edward, _d1926- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMuch ado about nothing : _btheories of space and vacuum from the Middle Ages to the scientific revolution / _cEdward Grant.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c1981.
300			_a1 online resource (xiii, 456 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520			_aThe primary objective of this study is to provide a description of the major ideas about void space within and beyond the world that were formulated between the fourteenth and early eighteenth centuries. The second part of the book - on infinite, extracosmic void space - is of special significance. The significance of Professor Grant's account is twofold: it provides a comprehensive and detailed description of the scholastic Aristotelian arguments for and against the existence of void space; and it presents (again for the first time) an analysis of the possible influence of scholastic ideas and arguments on the interpretations of space proposed by the nonscholastic authors who made the Scientific Revolution possible. The concluding chapter of the book is unique in not only describing the conceptualizations of space proposed by the makers of the Scientific Revolution, but in assessing the role of readily available scholastic ideas on the conception of space adopted for the Newtonian world.
650		0	_aSpace and time _xHistory.
650		0	_aVacuum _xHistory.
650		0	_aScience _xHistory.
650		0	_aScience _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aScience, Medieval.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521229838
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511895326
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