| Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories Contributor(s): Lüthy, Christoph, Murdoch, John, Newman, William |
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ISBN: 9004115161 ISBN-13: 9789004115163 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $152.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2001 Annotation: This volume deals with corpuscular matter theory that was to emerge as the dominant model in the seventeenth century. By retracing atomist and corpuscularian ideas to a variety of mutually independent medieval and Renaissance sources in natural philosophy, medicine, alchemy, mathematics, and theology, this volume shows the debt of early modern matter theory to previous traditions and thereby explains its bewildering heterogeneity. The book assembles nineteen carefully selected contributions by some of the most notable historians of medieval and early modern philosophy and science. All chapters present new research results and will therefore be of interest to historians of philosophy, science, and medicine between 1150 and 1750. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - General - Architecture | Interior Design - General - Science | History |
| Dewey: 530.09 |
| LCCN: 2001277902 |
| Series: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science |
| Physical Information: 1.72" H x 6.58" W x 9.56" (2.67 lbs) 612 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This volume deals with corpuscular matter theory that was to emerge as the dominant model in the seventeenth century. By retracing atomist and corpuscularian ideas to a variety of mutually independent medieval and Renaissance sources in natural philosophy, medicine, alchemy, mathematics, and theology, this volume shows the debt of early modern matter theory to previous traditions and thereby explains its bewildering heterogeneity. The book assembles nineteen carefully selected contributions by some of the most notable historians of medieval and early modern philosophy and science. All chapters present new research results and will therefore be of interest to historians of philosophy, science, and medicine between 1150 and 1750. |