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Contents
Contents
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| Preface, | |
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| Introduction, | |
| I. | The Sky and the Heavens, | |
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| NICHOLAS OF CUSA AND MARCELLUS PALIGENIUS |
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| II. | The New Astronomy and the New Metaphysics, | |
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| N. COPERNICUS, TH. DIGGES, G. BRUNO AND W. GILBERT |
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| III. | The New Astronomy against the New Metaphysics, | |
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| JOHANNES KEPLER'S REJECTION OF INFINITY |
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| IV. | Things Never Seen Before and Thoughts Never Thought: the Discovery of New Stars in the World Space and the Materialization of Space, | |
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| GALILEO AND DESCARTES |
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| V. | Indefinite Extension or Infinite Space, | |
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| DESCARTES AND HENRY MORE |
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| VI. | God and Space, Spirit and Matter, | |
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| HENRY MORE |
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| VII. | Absolute Space, Absolute Time and Their Relations to God, | |
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| MALEBRANCHE, NEWTON AND BENTLEY |
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| VIII. | The Divinization of Space, | |
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| JOSEPH RAPHSON |
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| IX. | God and the World: Space, Matter, Ether and Spirit, | |
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| ISAAC NEWTON |
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| X. | Absolute Space and Absolute Time: God's Frame of Action, | |
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| BERKELEY AND NEWTON |
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| XI. | The Work-Day God and the God of the Sabbath, | |
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| NEWTON AND LEIBNIZ |
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| XII. | Conclusion: |
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| The Divine Artifex and the Dieu Fainéant, | |
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| Notes, | |
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| Index, |
ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure 1. Typical pre-Copernican diagram of the universe, 7
Figure 2. Thomas Digges's diagram of the infinite Copernican universe, 37
Figure 3. The figure M of Kepler, 79
Figure 4. Galileo's star-picture of the shield and sword of Orion, 93
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