Page 6 - Cognition and Thinking of the history of Science and Technology

A divised Cosmos

• The double conception of nature,

mathematical for the sky and intuitive
for the Earth had an important impact

on Western civilisation.

• While the sky was seen as the reflect of

God’s mathematical perfection and
therefore was mathematically

described, phenomena on Earth were
qualitatively and not quantitatively

described.

• The notions of force or labour were not
measured, there was not mathematical

units for these concepts.

• Earth was considered as Humans’

house and not as a milieu that can be
exactly measured and exploited. This

approach to the environment had a The Aristotelian divided
seminal impact on pre-Modern

civilisations. Cosmos
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