Using an integrated philosophical and historical approach, this book explores the fundamental shift in understandings of space in the scientific revolution.

A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.

This volume provides a much needed, historically accurate narrative of the development of theories of space up to the beginning of the eighteenth century. It st

New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it about In th

In-depth discussion of the value of scientific theories, bringing together and advancing current important debates in realism.