Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
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| Summary: | IX, 291 p. 2 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Series: | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02765-0 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction (Frederik Bakker)
- Chapter 2. Aristotle’s Account of Place in Physics 4: Some Puzzles and Some Reactions (Keimpe Algra)
- Chapter 3. The End of Epicurean Infinity: Critical Reflections on the Epicurean Infinite Universe (Frederik Bakker)
- Chapter 4. Space, Imagination, and Numbers in John Wyclif’s Mathematical Theology (Aurélien Robert)
- Chapter 5. Space and Movement in Medieval Thought: the Angelological Shift (Tiziana Suarez-Nani)
- Chapter 6. Mathematical and Metaphysical Space in the Early Fourteenth Century (William Duba)
- Chapter 7. Francisco Suárez and Francesco Patrizi: Metaphysical Investigations on Place and Space (Olivier Ribordy)
- Chapter 8. Giordano Bruno’s Concept of Space: Cosmological and Theological Aspects (Miguel Angel Granada)
- Chapter 9. Libert Froidmont’s Conception and Imagination of Space in Three Early Works: (1627) Peregrinatio cœlestis (1616), De cometa (1618), Meteorologica (1627) (Isabelle Pantin)
- Chapter 10. Questioning Fludd, Kepler and Galileo: Mersenne’s Harmonious Universe (Natacha Fabbri)
- Chapter 11. Imaginary Spaces and Cosmological Issues in Gassendi’s Philosophy (Delphine Bellis)
- Chapter 12. Space, Imagination and the Cosmos in the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence (Carla Rita Palmerino).