| Titre | L'image du monde physique en Russie à la fin du XVIe siècle | |
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| Auteur | Nicolas Ross | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 15, no 3-4, juillet-décembre 1974 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Études |
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| Page | 245-277 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Nicolas Ross, Russian image of physical world at the end of the XIV th century.
The object of this article is the study of conceptions of the systems of the world and of the inanimate nature, the glimpse of which is given to us by the Russian texts at the end of the XIVth century. These texts are varied enough and practically all of Byzantine origin: works of the Fathers of the Church, chronicles, apocrypha, isolated short notices... Two systems of the world are offered to the thought of a scholar: that of Aristotle, known through the works of the Fathers or the Hexaemeron of John the Exarch of Bulgaria and that of Cosmas Indicopleustès, whose "universe-box" seems however less popular. One must add to those two great systems the numerous information, some picturesque, others ingenuous, provided by the apocrypha on certain details of the organization of the universe.
If it appears clearly that at the time there was no critérium whatsoever to distinguish the true from the-Jalse in the mass of book-derived knowledge, it is nevertheless true that the diversity of ideas offered by texts could stimulate personal meditation in a domain in which there was no religious constraint in Russia during the XIVth century. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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