Title: Space, imagination and the cosmos from antiquity to the early modern period /
Authors: Bakker, Frederik A.; Bellis, Delphine; Palmerino, Carla Rita
Year: 2019
Subjects: Space Philosophy History.; Cosmology History; Imagination; Science Philosophy History; Cosmology; Imagination; Science Philosophy
Contents: 1. Space, imagination and the cosmos, from antiquity to the early modern period: introduction / Frederik A. Bakker, Delphine Bellis, and Carla Rita Palmerino -- 2. Aristotle's account of place in Physics 4 : some puzzles and some reactions / Keimpe Algra -- 3. The end of Epicurean infinity : critical reflections on the Epicurean infinite universe / Frederik A. Bakker -- 4. Space and movement in medieval thought : the angelological shift / Tiziana Suarez-Nani -- 5. Mathematical and metaphysical space in the early fourteenth century / William O. Duba -- 6. Space, imagination, and numbers in John Wyclif's mathematical theology / Aurélien Robert -- 7. Francisco Suárez and Francesco Patrizi : metaphysical investigations on place and space / Olivier Ribordy -- 8. Giordano Bruno's concept of space : cosmological and theological aspects / Miguel Á. Granada -- 9. Libert Froidmont's conception and imagination of space in three early works : Peregrinatio cœlestis (1616), De cometa (1618), Meteorologica (1627) / Isabelle Pantin -- 10. Questioning Fludd, Kepler and Galileo : Mersenne's harmonious universe / Natacha Fabbri -- 11. Imaginary spaces and cosmological issues in Gassendi's philosophy / Delphine Bellis -- 12. Space, imagination and the cosmos in the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence / Carla Rita Palmerino.