Assumptions and philosophical affiliations of astronomical paradigms in the Viceroyalty of Peru

Abstract

In this paper we study the variety of astronomic paradigms in Peru’s viceroyalty and its background of natural philosophy. In this study we show that until the xviii century, Tycho Brahe’s vertion of the classic geocentric paradigm was the dominant. The Ptolemaic paradigm was present, too. But its important was not very relevant. Since the middle of xviii century the modern paradigm of Kepler and Newton arrives to Peruvian viceroyalty. For the end of xviii century that paradigm was the dominant.