Studies in History and Philosophy of Science: Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy

Vermeir, Koen; Regier, Jonathan

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.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2018-06-16

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783319822594

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41075-3

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 273