Adriaan van Roomen and the Uranography: The Link between Mathematical Disciplines and Philosophy in the 16th and 17th Centuries
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https://doi.org/10.48160/18532330me9.205Keywords:
astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, quaestio de certitudine mathematicarumAbstract
Astronomical works published in the sixteenth century can certainly be categorized according to two characteristics: some works dealing with the philosophical questions related to celestial bodies and others dealing with technical/mathematical problems of astronomy. In the following century, although astronomical publications continued to approach subject matter in the aforementioned ways, it seems to have emerged a type of work that tried to unite the philosophical and mathematical aspects of astronomy. In this paper, we will approach the Ouranographia of Adriaan van Roomen (1561-1615), one of the first works to ground astronomy on a merger of philosophical knowledge and the technical aspects of mathematics — indirectly entering discussions about the ‘quaestio de certitudine mathematicarum’. Thus, van Roomen not only published a groundbreaking work, but also — in the midst of an intense debate about the classification of knowledge and mathematics — created a “new” discipline, uranography.
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