The 'Physica Mosaica' of Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588-1638)
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://teorievedy.flu.cas.cz/index.php/tv/article/view/472" target="_blank" >http://teorievedy.flu.cas.cz/index.php/tv/article/view/472</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.46938/tv.2020.472" target="_blank" >10.46938/tv.2020.472</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The 'Physica Mosaica' of Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588-1638)
Original language description
Some early modern scholars believed that Scripture provided more certain knowledge than all secular au- thorities – even Aristotle – or investigating nature as such. In this paper, I analyse one such attempt to establish the most reliable knowledge of nature: the so-called Mosaic physics proposed by the Reformed encyclo- paedist Johann Heinrich Alsted. Although in his early works on Physica Mosaica Alsted declares that his primary aim is proving the harmony that exists between various traditions of natural philosophy, namely between the Mosaic and the Peripatetic approaches, and despite the fact that his biblical encyclopaedia of 1625 was intended to be based on a literal reading of the Bible, he never truly abandoned the Aristotelian framework of physics. What is more, in his mature encyclopaedia of 1630, he eventually openly preferred Aristotle to other natural- philosophical traditions. I argue, therefore, that Alsted’s bold vision of Mosaic physics remained unfulfi lled and should be assessed as an unsuccessful project of early modern natural philosophy.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Teorie vědy
ISSN
1210-0250
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Volume of the periodical
42
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
117-139
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85090860774