Huygens’ stargazing scientists: the idea of science in Cosmotheoros

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Špelda, Daniel
Huygens’ stargazing scientists: the idea of science in Cosmotheoros.
History of European Ideas. Roč. 44, č. 8 (2018), s. 1111-1126. ISSN 0191-6599
Grant CEP: GA ČR GB14-37038G
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985955
Klíčová slova: Christiaan Huygens * extra-terrestrial life * early modern science * the idea of scientific progress * natural theology
Obor OECD: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

This paper deals with the book Cosmotheoros (1698), in which Christiaan Huygens presented his concept of a universe made up of many inhabited planets. Recent interpreters of this work have focused especially on cosmological issues presented in the book. Cosmotheoros, however, comprises also various philosophical ideas. Huygens’ stargazers are a good example of how strikingly the basic assumptions of knowledge of nature in the early modern period changed with regard to classical antiquity.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0291897