Pogorelskaia E.Yu. Mastering Geocentric Space: Metaphysics-Technical Consensus
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/lp.jvolsu.2025.1.2
Elena Yu. Pogorelskaia
Candidate of Sciences (Philosophy), Associate Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Services and Tourism, Humanitarian University
Zheleznodorozhnikov St, 3, 620041 Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9723-465X
Abstract. One of the fundamental basic concepts that influenced the formation of modern civilization is the geocentric system of the world. And although the modern idea of the universe differs significantly from the ancient and medieval understanding of the world, nevertheless, the geocentric metrics of space, as the embryonic structures of semantic invariants, leaving the level of the obvious, remain in the foundations of civilization as an obligatory "relict background" of the worldview. The objective of the present study is to identify the structures of geocentric space. In order to achieve this objective, this research will utilize structuralist methodology. This methodological approach will allow for the decomposition of the unified ideological concept of geocentric space into semantic invariants. Despite the intelligible nature of these semantic invariants, they will be dissolved in a variety of material practices. Scientific novelty. The question of distinguishing the structures of geocentric space is new in itself: the invariant layers of meanings that set the navigation grids of the geocentric world as a whole have come into focus. Structural layers define different ways of space exploration while being internally consistent and congruent to each other. Having a qualitative difference between themselves, the structural layers of geocentric space, for various reasons, maintain the integrity of the cosmos and are complementary. The primary structural layer is created by geometric patterns that permeate the cosmos in such a way that the sky is reflected in earthly things; this makes it possible to build unified systems that include stellar and terrestrial objects at the same time. Technological structures manifested in the contradictions of historically growing experience are embedded in the pragmatics of navigation maps and various tools. Technological structures are in permanent transformation and improvement, while geometric structures are initially conditioned by the ideal. Symbolic structures are dissolved in being as such and are the main value and epistemological layer for understanding geocentric space. The symbolic space is double and has a wrong side. The degeneracy of the geocentric structures of space is manifested in the anthropic principle. The world begins to gather around the cognizing consciousness, and the invariants of the universe, represented by the basic constants, do not resist this.
Key words: geocentric space, structures, geometry, Ptolemy, navigation maps, Mercator, Dante, double space.
Citation. Pogorelskaia E.Yu. Mastering Geocentric Space: Metaphysics-Technical Consensus. Logos et Praxis, 2025, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 21-31. (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/lp.jvolsu.2025.1.2
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