| Boundaries, Extents and Circulations: Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Vermeir, Koen (Editor), Regier, Jonathan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3319822594 ISBN-13: 9783319822594 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $123.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | History - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 501 |
| Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.90 lbs) 273 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
