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- Title
La théorie des éléments de Christophorus Clavius et l'idée du globe terraqué.
- Authors
Echeverría, Virginia Iommi; Amunátegui, Godofredo Iommi
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
GERMANY; CLAVIUS, Christoph, 1538-1612; FOUR elements (Philosophy); COMBINATORICS; JESUIT scientists; ARISTOTLE, 384-322 B.C.; JESUITS; METAPHYSICAL cosmology; SCHOLASTICISM (Theology); HISTORY of physics -- To 500
- Publication
Berichte zur Wissenschafts-Geschichte, 2013, Vol 36, Issue 3, p211
- ISSN
0170-6233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bewi.201301605