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Knowledge and Cosmos: Development and Decline of the Medieval Perspective (2nd Edition)

by DeKosky, Robert K.

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Trace the transformation of Western ideas about the universe from the medieval worldview to the dawn of modern science.

In Knowledge and Cosmos, historian Robert K. DeKosky explores the intellectual developments that shaped—and ultimately transformed—medieval understandings of nature. Bringing together astronomy, cosmology, physics, philosophy, matter theory, and theology, DeKosky examines four influential approaches to explaining the natural world: teleological, mechanical, occultist, and mathematico-descriptive. 

Beginning with classical and medieval thought, the book considers influential ideas about the heavens, matter, motion, faith, and reason before turning to the revolutionary discoveries of the early modern period. Readers encounter the changing perspectives associated with Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, and other thinkers whose work challenged established interpretations of the cosmos. 

Detailed and interdisciplinary, Knowledge and Cosmos offers an illuminating account of how competing ways of understanding nature interacted across centuries, revealing the complex intellectual journey from the medieval universe toward the foundations of modern scientific thought.
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