Article ID: CBB001213496

La théorie des éléments de Christophorus Clavius et l'idée du globe terraqué (2013)

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Christophorus Clavius' Theory of the Elements and the Idea of the Terraqueous Globe. The need to reconcile Aristotle's theory of elementary spheres with the evidence of earth above sea level -- the so-called `terra firma' -- induced an important conceptual shift. As a consequence anti-Aristotelian arguments were brought to the fore in order to be incorporated into the very same Aristotelian tradition. The German Jesuit Christophorus Clavius played a momentous role in this process. He introduced the idea of the terraqueous globe into the Scholastic cosmology, modifying the logical frame of Aristotelian physics. The present work analyses Clavius' theory as well as the procedures he considers to reach his purpose. He used a combinatorial approach to study the relations occurring between the four elements -- earth, water, air and fire -- and analysed their relations from a physical perspective, proposing a possible structure of the sublunary world.

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Authors & Contributors
Camden, David Hayden
Zonta, Mauro
Valleriani, Matteo
Telesio, Bernardino
Schiefsky, Mark J.
Schiavo, Armando
Concepts
Four elements (philosophy)
Physics
Aristotelianism
Mathematics
Theory of the elements
Water
Time Periods
Renaissance
16th century
15th century
17th century
Early modern
Medieval
Places
Italy
Greece
Europe
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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