Philosophy International Journal (PhIJ)

ISSN: 2641-9130

Conceptual Paper

Copernican Multilateral Revolution: Gradual Reconciliation of Aristotelean Terrestrial Physics and Ptolemaic Celestial Mathematics

Authors: Nugayev RM

DOI: 10.23880/phij-16000216

Abstract

Copernican Revolution is elicited in the distinctive context of intense interaction of Aristotelean and Ptolemaic subtle theoretical languages. It is unfolded that already within the Ptolemaic research program the mathematical exactness increasingly deviated from the blunt tenets of Aristotelean qualitative physics. Aristotelian - Ptolemaic pagan cosmology could not help but be exposed to repeated attacks during the Middle Ages since it apparently confronted the principles of monotheism not admitting the stiff and impenetrable demarcation line between the celestial and mundane realms. All different worlds should have one and the same Creator. Starting the unification, Copernicus in effect paved the way for Galileo’s and Newton’s mathematical physics.  

Keywords: Aristotelian Qualitative Physics; Ptolemaic Mathematical Astronomy; Monotheistic Weltanschauung; Copernicus; Galileo; Kepler; Descartes; Newton

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