Infinity and perspective
By: Karsten Harries
Contributors: NetLibrary, Inc
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Perspective (Philosophy); Infinite; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [332]-369) and index.

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Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Power and poverty of perspective; title: Perspective and the infinity of the universe; title: Learned ignorance; title: Alberti and perspective construction; title: Curious perspectives; title: The thread of Ariadne; title: pt. 2. Infinity and truth; title: Truth as the property of God; title: The infinity of space and the infinity of man; title: The infinity of man and the infinity of God; title: Homo Faber: the rediscovery of Protagoras; title: The dignity of man; title: pt. 3. The loss of the Earth; title: Copernican anthropocentrism; title: The crime of Bruno; title: Insight and blindness of Galileo; title: The reef of infinite; title: Copernican revolutions; title: Epilogue: astronautics and astronoetics.