{"collection":"astro","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/astro/cwiu/cwiu02.htm","path":"astro/cwiu/cwiu02.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/astro/cwiu/cwiu02.htm","text":"From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe, by Alexander Koyr\u00e9, [1957]\n| | Preface, | vii | \n| | Introduction, | 1 | \n| I. | The Sky and the Heavens, | 5 | \n| | NICHOLAS OF CUSA AND MARCELLUS PALIGENIUS | | \n| II. | The New Astronomy and the New Metaphysics, | 28 | \n| | N. COPERNICUS, TH. DIGGES, G. BRUNO AND W. GILBERT | | \n| III. | The New Astronomy against the New Metaphysics, | 58 | \n| | JOHANNES KEPLER'S REJECTION OF INFINITY | | \n| IV. | Things Never Seen Before and Thoughts Never Thought: the Discovery of New Stars in the World Space and the Materialization of Space, | 88 | \n| | GALILEO AND DESCARTES | | \n| V. | Indefinite Extension or Infinite Space, | 110 | \n| | DESCARTES AND HENRY MORE | | \n| VI. | God and Space, Spirit and Matter, | 125 | \n| | HENRY MORE | | \n| VII. | Absolute Space, Absolute Time and Their Relations to God, | 155 | \n| | MALEBRANCHE, NEWTON AND BENTLEY | | \n| VIII. | The Divinization of Space, | 190 | \n| | JOSEPH RAPHSON | | \n| IX. | God and the World: Space, Matter, Ether and Spirit, | 206 | \n| | ISAAC NEWTON | | \n| | p. xii | | \n| X. | Absolute Space and Absolute Time: God's Frame of Action, | 221 | \n| | BERKELEY AND NEWTON | | \n| XI. | The Work-Day God and the God of the Sabbath, | 235 | \n| | NEWTON AND LEIBNIZ | | \n| XII. | Conclusion: | | \n| | The Divine Artifex and the Dieu Fain\u00e9ant, | 273 | \n| | Notes, | 277 | \n| | Index, | 305 | \nFigure 1. Typical pre-Copernican diagram of the universe, 7\nFigure 2. Thomas Digges's diagram of the infinite Copernican universe, 37\nFigure 3. The figure M of Kepler, 79\nFigure 4. Galileo's star-picture of the shield and sword of Orion, 93","title":"From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: Contents","type":"page"}