In Defense of the Earth's Centrality and Immobility: Scholastic Reaction to Copernicanism in the Seventeenth Century Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 74, Part 4)
In Defense of the Earth's Centrality and Immobility: Scholastic Reaction to Copernicanism in the Seventeenth Century Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 74, Part 4)
This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Introduction; (I) The Diversity of the Aristotelian Reaction; (II) The Basic Defense of Aristotelian Cosmology; (III) The Earth's Centrality: The Three Centers; & The Terraqueous Sphere; (IV) The Earth's Immobility: (A) Physical Arguments Based on the Common Motion: The Common Motion; Ships & the Common Motion; Cannon Balls to East & West; The Fall of Heavy & Light Bodies; & Miscellaneous Physical Arguments; & (B) Metaphysical Arguments: Simplicity, Order & Nobility; & ...
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This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Introduction; (I) The Diversity of the Aristotelian Reaction; (II) The Basic Defense of Aristotelian Cosmology; (III) The Earth's Centrality: The Three Centers; & The Terraqueous Sphere; (IV) The Earth's Immobility: (A) Physical Arguments Based on the Common Motion: The Common Motion; Ships & the Common Motion; Cannon Balls to East & West; The Fall of Heavy & Light Bodies; & Miscellaneous Physical Arguments; & (B) Metaphysical Arguments: Simplicity, Order & Nobility; & Conclusion.
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Good+ Ex-Library, Periodical. 8vo-Over 7 3/4"-9 3/4 " Tall. Retired library copy with all the usual stamps, stickers, and labels. Some underlining and annotating throughout the textblock. Covers lightly edge and corner worn with some light wrinkling on both covers. 69p., including index.
