The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe by Thoren V.E., Christianson J.R.

By Thoren V.E., Christianson J.R.

The Lord of Uraniborg is a entire biography of Tycho Brahe, father of recent astronomy, famed alchemist and littérateur of the sixteenth-century Danish Renaissance. Written in a full of life and interesting type, Victor Thoren's biography deals attention-grabbing views on Tycho's lifestyles and provides substitute analyses of almost each element of his medical paintings. quite a number readers attracted to astronomy, historical past of astronomy and the historical past of technological know-how will locate this e-book attention-grabbing.

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15. AT(NP), 8:314-5. 16. , 5:389. 17. More, CSPW, AA, 46. 18. , 42. As it stands, this argument cannot count against Cartesian mechanism, since Descartes' material particles do not move fortuitously, but according to divinely-established laws of nature. However, More did not believe that the initial chaos in Descartes' cosmogony, ruled by mechanical law, could have devolved into the ordered world we know without guiding Providence. A more serious problem is that 'blind fortuitous jumblings' are necessarily not subject to any natural laws whatever, whether mechnical or not.

18 In the 1662 edition of the Antidote, and later in the Enchiridion metaphysicum, More introduced the air-pump experiments that Boyle reported in his New Experiments physico-mechanical touching the spring of the air (1660), to show that one of them at least could not be accounted for in mechanical terms. 19 How can the sucker of an exhausted air-pump draw upwards of its own accord a weight of 100 Ibs. or more? More concedes that Boyle's hypothesis of 'an elastick power in the air' is the most plausible explanation, yet such an enormous pressure ought to exist everywhere in the air; and a pat of butter of the same diameter as the sucker, for example, ought to be squeezed flat, and the liquids squeezed out of it, with a total force of 200 Ibs, which obviously does not happen.

33. AT(NP), 5:383, from Gabbey, 211. 34. , 213. 35. 'Quod vero addit externam aliquam esse vim, sive a Deo sit, sive a substantia ali qua incorporea a Deo creata, qua materia in motum excitatur ... ac si Divina illa vis singula corpora immediate impelleret quae moventur, magna erit difficultas; frustra enim essent mutui corporum impulsus', AT(NP), 5:646, 356. 36. John Henry, 'Occult Qualities'. Henry More and the limits of mechanism 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. More, CSPW, IS, 11. Ibid. Hyrne to More, 19 aug.

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