With the meteoric rise of Aristotle in the intellectual life of thirteenth-century Europe, a series of proofs concerning the world's possible eternity took on new meaning. The recovery of various Aristotelian texts, an influx of commentaries from the Arab world, and rapid change…
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In Europe, during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, questions that occupied the minds of the scientists and philosophers in characterizing the universe as a whole were those which related to a concept of infinity in time and space. New theories on gravity, motion, ext…
I examine the way in which, in his work of the 1840s, Ruskin uses methods and assumptions derived from eighteenth-century Materialist, Mechanist and Vitalist Natural Philosophy, especially his assertion that the meanings which he reads into natural phenomena are objectively pres…