Philosophy 45 Flashcards
What was the anima matrix?
A moving force akin to astrological “influences” which emanated from the sun and moved the planets most powerfully close to the sun, less so when distant
What did Kepler add to the celestial/terrestrial understanding?
He applied notions of terrestrial force to celestial phenomena
What did Galileo establish as the final test of hypotheses?
The quantitative experiment
What can be said of Galileo’s life work?
He effectively supported Copernican theory, initiated the full mathematization of nature, developed the working principles of the modern scientific method
Why was there no fundamental celestial/terrestrial division?
The Earth itself was merely another chance aggregation of particles and was neither at rest nor at the universe’s center
What coincided with the atomistic cosmos?
The implications of a Copernican universe
What did the Christian Descartes assume?
Descartes assumed that the physical world was composed of an infinite number of particles or “corpuscles” which was mechanically collided and aggregated
