1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822418403321

Autore

Foltz Bruce V

Titolo

The noetics of nature : environmental philosophy and the holy beauty of the visible / / Bruce V. Foltz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-8232-5466-6

0-8232-5465-8

0-8232-6102-6

0-8232-5468-2

0-8232-5467-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 pages)

Collana

Groundworks

Classificazione

REL049000SCI026000

Disciplina

113

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Environmental ethics

Human ecology - Religious aspects

Nature - Religious aspects

Philosophy of nature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Introduction: The Noetics of Nature -- 1. Whence the Depth of Deep Ecology? Natural Beauty and the Eclipse of the Holy -- 2. Nature's Other Side: The Demise of Nature and the Phenomenology of Givenness -- 3. Layers of Nature in Thomas Traherne and John Muir: Numinous Beauty, Onto-theology, and Polyphony of Tradition -- 4. Sailing to Byzantium: Nature and City in the Greek East -- 5. The Resurrection of Nature: Environmental Metaphysics in Sergei Bulgakov's Philosophy of Economy -- 6. The Iconic Earth: Nature Godly and Beautiful -- 7. Seeing Nature: The©oria Physik©e in the Thought of St. Maximus the Confessor -- 8. Seeing God in All Things: Nature and Divinity in Maximus, Florensky, and Ibn 'Arabi -- 9. The Glory of God Hidden in Creation: Eastern Views of Nature in Fyodor Dostoevsky and St Isaac the Syrian -- 10. Between



Heaven and Earth: Did Christianity Cause Global Warming? -- 11. Nature and Other Modern Idolatries: Kosmos, Ktisis, and Chaos in Environmental Philosophy -- 12. Traces of Divine Fragrance, Droplets of Divine Love: the Beauty of Visible Creation in Byzantine Thought and Spirituality -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Contemplative or “noetic” knowledge has traditionally been seen as the highest mode of understanding, a view that persists both in many non-Western cultures and in Eastern Christianity, where “theoria physike,” or the illumined understanding of creation that follows the purification of the heart, is seen to provide deeper insights into nature than the discursive rationality modernity has used to dominate and conquer it.Working from texts in Eastern Orthodox philosophy and theology not widely known in the West, as well as a variety of sources including mystics such as the Sufi Ibn ‘Arabi, poets such as Basho, Traherne, Blake, Hölderlin, and Hopkins, and nature writers such as Muir, Thoreau, and Dillard, The Noetics of Nature challenges both the primacy of the natural sciences in environmental thought and the conventional view, first advanced by Lynn White, Jr., that Christian theology is somehow responsible for the environmental crisis.Instead, Foltz concludes that the ancient Christian view of creation as iconic—its “holy beauty” manifesting the divine energies and constituting a primal mode of divine revelation—offers the best prospect for the radical reversal that is needed in our relation to the natural environment.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825170103321

Titolo

The correspondence of John Wallis . Volume IV (1672- April 1675) / / editors, Philip Beeley, Christoph J. Scriba

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-19-182413-5

0-19-103069-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (653 p.)

Disciplina

510.922

Soggetti

Mathematicians - Great Britain

Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; PREFACE; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Algebra and analysis; Mathematical publications; Physical and mechanical themes; Mathematical practice and scientific instruments; Questions of natural history; Wallis's dispute with Hobbes; Foreign correspondents and visitors from abroad; Oldenburg, Collins, and scientific intelligencing; Church politics and theology; Wallis, his family, and friends; Wallis, Wase, and the University Press; Legal affairs; Crisis and reform in the Royal Society; EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES AND ABBREVIATIONS; CORRESPONDENCE

1. Edward Bernard to Wallis Oxford, 1[11] January 1671/22. Wallis to Edward Bernard [Oxford], 1/[11] January 1671/2; 3. Henry Oldenburg to Wallis 9/[19] January 1671/2; 4. Wallis to Henry Oldenburg Oxford, 14/[24] January 1671/2; 5. Henry Oldenburg to Wallis 16/[26] January 1671/2; 6. Wallis to Henry Oldenburg Oxford, 18/[28] January 1671/2 (i); 7. Wallis to Henry Oldenburg Oxford, 18/[28] January 1671/2 (ii); 8. John Collins to Wallis 23 January/[2 February] 1671/2; 9. Wallis to John Collins Oxford, 25 January/[4 February] 1671/2; 10. Jean Bertet to Wallis ? January 1671/2

11. Wallis to Jean Bertet ? January 1671/212. John Collins to Wallis 3/[13] February 1671/2; 13. Wallis to Henry Oldenburg 5/[15] February 1671/2; 14. Wallis to Pasquier Quesnel Oxford, 6/[16] February



1671/2; 15. Wallis to Thomas Salmon 7/[17] February 1671/2; 16. Wallis to John Collins Oxford, 13/[23] February 1671/2; 17. Wallis to Henry Oldenburg Oxford, 15/[25] February 1671/2; 18. Wallis to Johannes Hevelius Oxford, 3/[13] March 1671/2; 19. Wallis to John Collins 9/[19] March 1671/2; 20. John Collins to Wallis [London], 16/[26] March 1671/2

21. Wallis, Note on a Fish Caught in the Thames Oxford, 22 March/[1 April] 1671/222. Wallis to John Collins Oxford, 26 March/[5 April] 1672; 23. Wallis to John Collins Oxford, 27 March/[6 April] 1672; 24. John Collins to Edward Bernard London, 30 April/[10 May] 1672; 25. John Collins to Wallis 9/[19] May 1672; 26. Pasquier Quesnel to Wallis Paris, [9]/19 May 1672; 27. Wallis to John Collins Stoke by Guildford, 13/[23] May 1672; 28. Henry Wilkinson to Wallis 13/[23] May 1672; 29. Thomas Salmon to Wallis 1/[11] June 1672; 30. Wallis to John Collins Oxford, 8/[18] June 1672

31. Wallis to John Collins Oxford, 8/[18] June 1672, enclosure: Paper on Trigonometric Functions32. John Collins (and Wallis) to Giovanni Alfonso Borelli London, 8/[18] June 1672; 33. Wallis to John Collins Oxford, 14/[24] June 1672; 34. Christopher Wren to Wallis [London] 21 June/[1 July] 1672; 35. John Collins to Wallis 16/[26] July 1672; 36. John Wallis jr to Wallis June/July 1672; 37. Wallis to John Collins Oxford, 18/[28] July 1672; 38. John Flamsteed to John Collins Derby, 23 July/[2 August] 1672; 39. John Collins to Wallis 27 July/[6 August] 1672

40. Wallis to John Collins Oxford, 30 July/[9 August] 1672

Sommario/riassunto

The Correspondence of John Wallis (1616 -1703) is a critically acclaimed resource in the history of early modern science. Volume IV covers the period from 1672 to April 1675 and contains over eighty previously unpublished letters. It documents Wallis's role in the crucial debate over the method of tangents involving figures such as Sluse, James Gregory, Hudde, Barrow, Newton, and Christiaan Huygens. In this way it illuminates further an important part of the history of the calculus. Wallis's letters also provide valuable new insights into mathematical book production and the importance of the