Jacob Boehme's Divine Substance Salitter: its Nature, Origin, and Relationship to Seventeenth Century Scientific Theories
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1989
Publication Title
British Journal of the History of Science
Abstract
The Century between the death of Copernicus (1543) and the birth of Newton (1642) witnessed a major reshaping of traditional ways of viewing the universe. The Ptolemaic system was challenged by Copernican heliocentrism, the Aristotelian world was assailed by Galilean physics and revived atomism, and theology was troubled by the progressive distancing of God from the daily operation of His creation. Besides earning this era the title of ‘the Scientific Revolution’, the intellectual ferment of these times offered many world systems as successors to the throne of crumbling Aristotelianism.
Recommended Citation
Weeks, Andrew and Principe, Lawrence M., "Jacob Boehme's Divine Substance Salitter: its Nature, Origin, and Relationship to Seventeenth Century Scientific Theories" (1989). Faculty Publications-Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. 121.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/fpllc/121
Comments
This article was originally published as (with Lawrence M. Principe) “Jacob Boehme's Divine Substance Salitter: its Nature, Origin, and Relationship to Seventeenth Century Scientific Theories.” British Journal of the History of Science 22 (1989): pp. 53-61.