Boundaries, Extents and Circulations [electronic resource] : Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy /
Vermeir, Koen.editor.
Regier, Jonathan.editor.
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.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
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.
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.
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