Boundaries, extents and circulations: space and spatiality in early modern natural philosophy

by Regier, Jonathan Vermeir, Koen

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Full title :Boundaries, extents and circulations : space and spatiality in early modern natural philosophy / Koen Vermeir, Jonathan Regier, editors.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer
Place of Publication:Switzerland
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783319410753, 331941075X
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-41075-3
oclc:ocn958650941
LC Classification:BD621
Dewey Decimal:114.0902

Introduction: Early Modern Ideas of Space and Spatiality; 1 Boundaries, Extents and Circulations: An Introduction to Spatiality and the Early Modern Concept of Space ; Abstract ; 1.1 The Concepts of Space and Place; 1.2 Mathematical Extents; 1.3 The Divine Void; 1.4 Earthly and Celestial Spaces; 1.5 Boundaries and Circulations; 1.6 Conclusion; References; 2 Leibniz and the Petrifying Virtue of the Place ; Abstract ; References; 3 Francesco Patrizi and the New Geometry of Space ; Abstract ; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Development of Patrizi's Philosophy of Space.

3.3 Sources and Innovations of Patrizi's Metaphysics of Space3.4 The Epistemology of Geometry; 3.5 The Geometry of Space; References; 4 The Inception of the Concept of Infinite Physical Space in the Time of Copernicus and Giordano Bruno ; Abstract ; 4.1 Copernican Heliocentrism Partakes in a Cosmic Space Which Is Both Immense and Immobile; 4.2 From "Place" to Space in the Natural Philosophy of the Renaissance; 4.3 Extensive Infinity and the Properties of Cosmic Space; References; 5 The Perception of Spatial Depth in Kepler's and Descartes' Optics: A Study of an Epistemological Reversal.

Abstract 5.1 Perceiving Distance and…

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