Article ID: CBB000932582

Copernicus's Mereological Vision of the Universe (2009)

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Goddu, André (Author)


Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Volume: 14
Pages: 316--339


Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Part of special issue: Evidence and Interpretation: Studies on Early Science and Medicine in Honor of John E. Murdoch
Language: English

Mereology is the philosophical study of part/whole relations. Copernicus, Mästlin, and Kepler addressed explicitly some of the logical issues in their support of heliocentrism. Their emphasis on harmony and commensurability to evaluate theories as more or less likely fits with their use of part/whole relations to argue for the greater reasonability or probability of heliocentrism. The essay summarizes the logical and metaphysical issues that earlier traditions discussed, and it uses those discussions to illuminate features of heliocentric theories that remain otherwise obscure even in Newton.

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Description Mereology is the philosophical study of part/whole relations. This essay relates this concept to the emphasis by Copernicus, Mästlin, and Kepler on harmony and commensurability.


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Article Newman, William R.; Sylla, Edith Dudley (2009) Introduction. Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (p. 1). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Lerner, Michel-Pierre
Goddu, André
Ragep, F. Jamil
Biro, Jacqueline
Carman, Christián Carlos
Copernico, Niccolò
Journals
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Galilæana: Journal of Galilean Studies
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Brill
E. Rauner Verlag
Instytut Historii Nauki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Les Belles Lettres
Meiner
Olschki
Concepts
Astronomy
Cosmology
Heliocentrism
Copernicanism
Celestial mechanics
Mathematics
People
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Kepler, Johannes
Rheticus, Georg Joachim
Ursus, Nicolas Reimarus
Brahe, Tycho
Galilei, Galileo
Time Periods
16th century
Renaissance
15th century
17th century
14th century
Ancient
Places
Europe
Italy
Poland
Prague (Czechia)
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