‘Ghosts from other planets’: plurality of worlds, afterlife and satire in Emanuel Swedenborg’s De Telluribus in mundo nostro solari (1758)
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DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2020.1817557
Abstract: ABSTRACT In 1758 in London, Swedish natural philosopher and mystic theologian Emanuel Swedenborg published De Telluribus in Mundo nostro Solari (Earths in our solar system), a treatise on the plurality of worlds and life on… read more here.
Keywords: telluribus; swedenborg; emanuel swedenborg; plurality worlds ... See more keywords
Al-Bīrūnī and Avicenna on the Existence of Void and the Plurality of Worlds
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DOI: 10.1163/18778372-04701002
Abstract: The present paper is devoted to the famous letter exchange between al-Bīrūnī and Avicenna. Its main concern is to elaborate the philosophical content of two of the 18 questions, namely on the existence of void… read more here.
Keywords: avicenna existence; plurality worlds; void plurality; existence void ... See more keywords