Much Ado about Nothing: Theories of Space and Vacuum from the Middle Ages to the Scientific Revolution 1st Edition by Edward Grant (PDF)

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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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Editorial Reviews: Book Description Provides a description of the major ideas about void space within and beyond the world that were formulated between the fourteenth and early eighteenth centuries.

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⭐While the philosophical discussion about void space and the vacuum had been going on since the time of Aristotle, it was the Scholastics that placed God at the center of the argument. To them if God was infinite, then He needed infinte space in which to occupy. Newton agreed with this argument. But Duns Scotus and later Leibniz showed that God’s presence was not needed; He could act by His will alone. Thus God was removed from space without charges of atheism being leveled. “With God’s departure, physical scientists finally had an infinite, three-dimensional, void frame within which they could study the motion of bodies without the need to do theology as well.” An interesting look at a fascinating subject.

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