Much Ado about Nothing

Theories of Space and Vacuum from the Middle Ages to the Scientific Revolution

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The 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.

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Published: 21st September 1981

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Preface
Intracosmic Space: Scope of study
Aristotle on void space
Medieval conceptions of the nature and properties of void space
The possibility of motion in void space
Nature's abhorrence of a vacuum
Infinite Void Space Beyond the World: Largely a theological problem
The historical roots of the medieval concept of an infinite, extracosmic void space
Late medieval conceptions of extracosmic ('imaginary') void space
Extracosmic, infinite void space in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scholastic thought
Infinite space in nonscholastic thought during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Summary and Reflections
Summary and reflections
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Much Ado about Nothing

Theories of Space and Vacuum from the Middle Ages to the Scientific Revolution

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