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The 'Physica Mosaica' of Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588-1638)

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17250%2F20%3AA210217O" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17250/20:A210217O - isvavai.cz</a>

  • 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.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Result continuities

  • Project

  • 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

  • e-ISSN

  • 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

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85090860774