Original scientific paper
Hermonia universalis in th Time of New Cosmological Discoveries. Copernicus - Petrić - Bruno - Kepler
Igor Škamperle
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Ljubljani, Slovenija
Abstract
After the publication of Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543, the stage of the world underwent a dramatic change, as well as questions regarding the role and meaning of man, the more so because even the contemporary technical analyses showed that Copernicus’ heliocentric system was not based on particularly strong arguments. In the second half of the sixteenth century the philosophical scientific debates presented many possible interpretations of the new Solar system. These interpretations had to be constructed in a direct dialogue with Aristotelianism. Investigations in natural philosophy may be undertaken with the conceptual pair of potentia absoluta versus potentia ordinata. In the Dialogues, where Bruno mentioned Petrić, he argues for an infinite absolute universe. However, the scienza nova, which defines the modern age, has nevertheless developed on the basis of a vision of a universal harmony and the defense of proportional symmetry, a vision we may follow from Petrić and Francesco Giorgio Veneto to Kepler.
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Publication date:
4.12.2000.
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