Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bakker, Frederik A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bellis, Delphine (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Palmerino, Carla Rita (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 48
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Philosophy, Ancient.; Medieval philosophy.; Modern philosophy.; History of Philosophy.; History of Science.; Classical Philosophy.; Medieval Philosophy.; Modern Philosophy.

This volume provides a much needed, historically accurate narrative of the development of theories of space up to the beginning of the eighteenth century. It studies conceptions of space that were implicitly or explicitly entailed by ancient, medieval and early modern representations of the cosmos....