Análise das proposições de John Wilkins em a descoberta de um novo mundo na lua

• Autor(a) principal: Sá, Felipe Henrique Cardoso de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/25952
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA::HISTORIA DAS CIENCIAS; John Wilkins; Plurality of worlds; Trip to the moon; Astronomy; XVII century; Royal society; John Wilkins; Plurality of worlds; Trip to the moon; Astronomy; XVII century; Royal society

John Wilkins, is a natural philosopher who lived in the 17th century, and among his numerous contributions to human thought, he published in 1638 the book The Discovery of World in the Moone. This work, which was written in the form of a speech, brings thirteen propositions by the author, with the purpose of debating the possibility of having a plurality of habitable worlds, one of them being the Moon. The author uses influences from classical authors to base his thinking , modern and holy scriptures. Thus, within these propositions are the thinking of Wilkins, which they treat as perhaps a new truth that can be mocked, but that influence their peers and the population of the time