Blumenberg’s presentation of the history of cosmology as an introduction to the genesis of the Copernican world

Abstract

Cosmology, especially as a pre-Copernican question of metaphysics, represented one of the central questions of thought throughout the history of the Western horizon: the relationship between metaphysics and cosmology was questioned with Copernicus major work on cosmology and especially in post-Copernican literature where the position of metaphysics alone was questioned. Following this, Hans Blumenberg (?1996) in his work ?Genesis of the Copernican world? presented the history of cosmos thinking from ancient cosmology through the relationship of cosmos and tragedy to the postclassicalidealistic development of science and cosmology within the field of natural science, encyclopedically presenting the results of his research. The main hypothesis of this paper is reflected in proving how Blumenberg, by expounding the genesis of the Copernican world and presenting the thesis of the ?ambiguity of heaven?, actually sets out the preconditions for the development of modern science in the field of natural science thinking. Namely, modern science is in fact the result of a history of thought with all it?s essential principles on the path of clarity and certainty, and finally to the pinnacle of science which is theoretically manifested in exactness. The ultimate goal of the paper is to present the genesis of the ambiguity of heaven to modern cosmology and cosmological research in modern times, especially - on the example of Blumenberg?s work