عنوان

Boundaries, extents and circulations

شابک

9783319410753

عنوان اصلي

Boundaries, extents and circulations

نام نخستين پديدآور

Koen Vermeir, Jonathan Regier, editor

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Switzerland

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Springer International Publishing

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2016

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource

عنوان فروست

Studies in history and philosophy of science volume 41

عنوان فروست

Series: Studies in history and philosophy of science volume 41

متن يادداشت

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 Spatial Properties in Optics Before Kepler; 5.2 The Status of Reflected and Refracted Images in Optics Before Kepler; 5.3 The Perception of the Location and Distance of Reflected and Refracted Images in Kepler's Optics: An Approach Between Physics and Psychology; 5.4 The Perception of Distance Through a Natural Geometry in Descartes' Optics; 5.5 Conclusion; References; 6 Experimental Cartesianism and the Problem of Space Abstract 6.1 Descartes on Space and Void; 6.2 Pascal and Descartes; 6.3 Cartesian Experimentalism and the Problem of Vacuum 6.4 ConclusionsReferences; 7 Putting the Devil on the Map: Demonology and Cosmography in the Renaissance Abstract 7.1 The Devil, Prince of This World; 7.2 New Horizons; 7.3 Analogies; 7.4 Demons on the Move; References; 8 All Space Will Pass Away: The Spiritual, Spaceless and Incorporeal Heaven of Valentin Weigel )1533-1588( Abstract 8.1 A Fundamental Dichotomy: Locative and Utopian, Bodily and Spiritual; 8.2 On the Place of the World: A Locative Start for a Utopian Argument; 8.3 From a Space Hovering in no Place to a Utopian Heaven: Nothing to Nobody; 8.4 Conclusion; Bibliography 9 'Borders,' 'Leaps' and 'Orbs of Virtue:' A Contextual Reconstruction of Francis Bacon's Extension-Related Concepts Abstract 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 The "Orbs of Virtue" in Magnetic Philosophy: Natural Philosophical and Operational Aspects; 9.3 Spatial Organization: Limits, Orientation and Symmetries; 9.4 Operational Drive and Natural Philosophical Difficulties: Perception, Collaboration and the Common Good in Gilbert' and Kepler's Magnetic Philosophy; 9.5 Francis Bacon's Operational Treatment of the Orbs of Virtue and the "Measures of Space"

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references

عنوان گونه گون

space and spatiality in early modern natural philosophy

عنصر شناسه ای

Space, History, To 1600

عنصر شناسه ای

Electronic books

عنصر شناسه ای

Electronic books., local

شماره

شماره رده

شماره رکورد رده بندي

نشانه اثر

عنصر شناسه اي

Vermeir, Koen,editor

عنصر شناسه اي

Regier, Jonathan,editor

عنصر شناسه اي

Ohio Library and Information Network

نوع ماده

English Book