Boundaries, Extents and Circulations : Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy / / edited by Koen Vermeir, Jonathan Regier

• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XI, 273 p. 15 illus.)
• Disciplina: 111.850947
• Soggetto topico: History; Philosophy; Philosophy and science; History of Science; History of Philosophy; Philosophy of Science
• Persona (resp. second.): VermeirKoen; RegierJonathan
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Jonathan Regier and Koen Vermeir, Boundaries, Extents and Circulations, Spatiality and the Early Modern Concept of Space. An introduction -- 2. Roger Ariew, Leibniz and the Petrifying Virtue of the Place -- 3. Vincenzo de Risi, Francesco Patrizi and the New Geometry of Space -- 4. Jean Seidengart, The Inception of the Concept of Infinite Physical Space in the Time of Copernicus and Giordano Bruno -- 5. Delphine Bellis, The Perception of Spatial Depth in Kepler’s and Descartes’ Optics -- 6. Mihnea Dobre, Experimental Cartesianism and the Problem of Space -- 7. Thibaut Maus de Rolley, Putting the Devil on the Map: Demonology and Cosmography in the Renaissance -- 8. Alessandro Scafi, All Space Will Pass Away: The Spiritual, Spaceless and Incorporeal Heaven of Valentin Weigel (1533-1588) -- 9. Dana Jalobeanu, Francis Bacon’s Experimental Construction of “Space” -- 10. Luc Peterschmitt, The Circulating Structure of Space in the 17th century Chemical Tradition.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume is an important re-evaluation of space and spatiality in the late Renaissance and early modern period. History of science has generally reduced sixteenth and seventeenth century space to a few canonical forms. This volume gives a much needed antidote. The contributing chapters examine the period’s staggering richness of spatiality: the geometrical, geographical, perceptual and elemental conceptualizations of space that abounded. The goal is to begin to reconstruct the amalgam of “spaces” which co-existed and cross-fertilized in the period’s many disciplines and visions of nature. Our volume will be a valuable resource for historians of science, philosophy and art, and for cultural and literary theorists.
• Titolo autorizzato: Boundaries, Extents and Circulations
• ISBN: 3-319-41075-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910254785503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, . 0929-6425 ; ; 41