Details

Subject(s)

• Space—History—To 1600 [Browse]
• Philosophy and science [Browse]

Editor

• Vermeir, Koen [Browse]
• Regier, Jonathan [Browse]

Series

• Studies in history and philosophy of science (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 41. [More in this series]
• Studies in history and philosophy of science, 0929-6425 ; volume 41

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

• 9783319410746 ((alk. paper))
• 3319410741 ((alk. paper))

OCLC

959556123

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