Boundaries, Extents and Circulations: Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy (1st ed. 2016) (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science #41)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2016
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9783319410753
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783319410746
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 09/21/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer International Publishing, Cham
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Science, Philosophy
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Koen Vermeir
- Edited by:
- Jonathan Regier
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