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....

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Frederik Bakker)
• Chapter 2. Aristotle's Account of Place in Physics 4: Some Puzzles and Some Reactions (Keimpe Algra)
• Chapter 3. The End of Epicurean Infinity: Critical Reflections on the Epicurean Infinite Universe (Frederik Bakker)
• Chapter 4. Space, Imagination, and Numbers in John Wyclif's Mathematical Theology (Aurélien Robert)
• Chapter 5. Space and Movement in Medieval Thought: the Angelological Shift (Tiziana Suarez-Nani)
• Chapter 6. Mathematical and Metaphysical Space in the Early Fourteenth Century (William Duba)
• Chapter 7. Francisco Suárez and Francesco Patrizi: Metaphysical Investigations on Place and Space (Olivier Ribordy)
• Chapter 8. Giordano Bruno's Concept of Space: Cosmological and Theological Aspects (Miguel Angel Granada)
• Chapter 9. Libert Froidmont's Conception and Imagination of Space in Three Early Works: (1627) Peregrinatio cœlestis (1616), De cometa (1618), Meteorologica (1627) (Isabelle Pantin)
• Chapter 10. Questioning Fludd, Kepler and Galileo: Mersenne's Harmonious Universe (Natacha Fabbri)
• Chapter 11. Imaginary Spaces and Cosmological Issues in Gassendi's Philosophy (Delphine Bellis)
• Chapter 12. Space, Imagination and the Cosmos in the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence (Carla Rita Palmerino).