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From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (Hideyo Noguchi Lecture)

From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (Hideyo Noguchi Lecture)
By Alexandre Koyre

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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a radical change occurred in the patterns and the framework of European thought. In the wake of discoveries through the telescope and Copernican theory, the notion of an ordered cosmos of "fixed stars" gave way to that of a universe infinite in both time and space -- with significant and far-reaching consequences for human thought. Alexandre Koyré interprets this revolution in terms of the change that occurred in our conception of the universe and our place in it and shows the primacy of this change in the development of the modern world.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #820391 in Books
  • Published on: 1968-10-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 328 pages

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"An important contribution to the problem of the transition from the world view characteristic of the medieval centuries to that which rapidly gained acceptance after the seventeenth century." -- Philosophical Quarterly



"Koyré has provided the material and has illuminated it with uniformly perceptive and occasionally brilliant commentary... An important contribution to the study of 17th-century thought." -- Thomas S. Kuhn, Science



"A model of scholarliness without pedantry, of clarity without oversimplification." -- Arthur Koestler, Encounter



"Surely a work that will be welcomed alike by the scientist, philosopher, and historian of ideas." -- Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

About the Author

Alexandre Koyré was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. His books include Discovering Plato and Newtonian Studies.

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Intellectual Elegance Defined5
Korye's decades-old book is still a pleasure and a marvel to read. The ideas developed in this first-rate work are lucidly and extensively developed and contain such subtle gems of thought that one could not possibly discover all of them with a single reading. Anyone with even but a passing interest in the history and philosophy of science should add this book to his library. A true classic!