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Author:   Simon Oliver
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9780415849180

ISBN 10:   0415849187
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   10 April 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Part one: Plato's Timaeus and the Soul's Motion of Knowing 1. The Nature of the Cosmos 2. Reason, Necessity and the Power of Rhetorical Persuasion 3. The Pedagogy and Ethics of Cosmology Part two: Aristotle: Ecstasy and intensifying motion 1. The Physics and Nature's Motion 2. Ecstasy and Intensification 3. The Ethics of Motion: Place, limit and God Part three: Light, Motion and Scientia Experimentalis 1. Robert Grosseteste: The science of light and the light of truth 2. The Experimentum 3. Roger Bacon: Truth and experiment Part four: St Thomas Aquinas: The God of motion 1. At the Limits of Aristotelian Physics 2. Motion and God 3. Virtue, Grace and Motion 4. Christ, the Eucharist and Motion Part five: The Isolation of Physics 1. Avicenna on Metaphysics and Physics 2. The Theory of Impetus and the Quantification of Motion Part six: Newton: God without motion 1. The Theological Context of Newtonian Motion 2. Motion in the Principia 3. The Absolute Space, Christ and Motion 4. The Fate of Mechanistic Motion Conclusion.

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Simon Oliver is Lecturer in Theology at University of Wales, Lampeter.

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