The Natural Philosophy of Johannes Amos Comenius and His Followers in the Context of Early Modern Mosaic Physics

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Natural Philosophy of Johannes Amos Comenius and His Followers in the Context of Early Modern Mosaic Physics

Original language description

From the earliest histories of philosophy (Johann Franz Buddeus, Johann Jakob Brucker) to twentieth-century scholarly research (Jaromír Červenka, Ann Blair), the work of Johannes Amos Comenius, especially his Physicae synopsis (1633) with its later Addenda (1663), has been understood as the culmination of so-called Mosaic physics, a remarkable endeavour of early modern natural philosophy. Comenius’ conception was characterized as both the most elaborate and the most successful, even if compared with his alleged predecessors. In this paper I examine this evaluation. It is evident that Comenius denies the main principles laid down by the first generation of Mosaic natural philosophers (e.g. Lambert Daneau, Otto Casmann, and Kort Aslakssøn), namely their emphasis on the significance of the Bible as the most reliable source of natural-philosophical knowledge (overshadowing reason and the senses), the necessity of reading it literally, and the facticity of the world’s creation out of nothing within six actual days. For this reason, the fundamental works of the aforementioned philosophers will be introduced and compared with Comenius’ texts to facilitate a proper grasping of Comenius’ place in the tradition of Mosaic physics. Finally, the texts written by Johannes Bayer and Johannes Sophronius Kozák, Comenius’ direct followers in the field of natural philosophy, will be studied as well.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - 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

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA22-00669S" target="_blank" >GA22-00669S: Early Modern Mosaic Physics and Its Comenian Successors</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Comeniana

ISSN

0231-5955

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

37

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

9-26

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105017284806