La Revolution Astronomique
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Series: L'Ane D'Or, Book 57
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ISBN10: 2251420681
ISBN13: 9782251420684
Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
Published: Dec 31 2016
Pages: 528
Language: French
ISBN13: 9782251420684
Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
Published: Dec 31 2016
Pages: 528
Language: French
Quelques annees apres avoir presente, dans Du monde clos a l'univers infini, les themes cosmologiques lies a la revolution astronomique des xvie et xviie siecles, Alexandre Koyre entreprend, dans le present ouvrage, de depeindre de facon precise et minutieuse cette revolution elle-meme, c'est-a-dire l'histoire de l'evolution et de la transformation des concepts cles a l'aide desquels l'astronomie essaie d'ordonner ou de sauver les phenomenes - salvare phenomena - en substituant au chaos des apparences sensibles une realite intelligible qui la sous-tend et qui l'explique . Selon les propres termes de l'auteur, la revolution astronomique s'accomplit en trois etapes, liees, chacune, a l'oeuvre d'un homme. Avec Copernic, qui arrete le soleil et lance la terre dans les cieux, l'heliocentrisme se substitue au geocentrisme. Avec Kepler, la dynamique celeste - helas, aristotelicienne - remplace la cinematique des cercles et des spheres de Copernic et des Anciens. De ce fait, meme la hantise de la circularite se trouve partiellement - dans un monde clos elle ne peut l'etre entierement - surmontee et l'astronomie elliptique fait son entree triomphale dans le monde. Enfin, avec Borelli, dans un monde desormais ouvert et regi par la dynamique, s'acheve l'unification de la physique celeste et de la physique terrestre qui se traduit par la deroute du cercle au profit de la droite infinie. Un ouvrage magistral sur une periode cle de l'histoire des sciences.
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