Physics, cosmology and astronomy, 1300 - 1700: tension and accommodation.

The present volume has its origins in a spring 1984 international workshop, held in Tel-Aviv, Israel. It deals with the interrelationships between physics, cosmology and astronomy between 1300 and 1700, with the tensions between the subjects and with the resolution of that tension in the new science which came to supplant medieval philosophy. It also covers the ancient background and includes chapters on Islamic and Jewish contributions, as well as on optics, science and religion, natural philosophy and mathematics, and science and political power.