Mathematizing Space The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age /
This book brings together papers of the conference on 'Space, Geometry and the Imagination from Antiquity to the Modern Age' held in Berlin, Germany, 27-29 August 2012. Focusing on the interconnections between the history of geometry and the philosophy of space in the pre-Modern and Early...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser,
2015.
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| Σειρά: | Trends in the History of Science,
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Vincenzo De Risi: Introduction
- Henry Mendell: What’s location got to do with it? Place, Space, and the Infinite in Classical Greek Mathematics
- Jeremy Gray: A note on lines and planes in Euclid’s geometry
- Alexander Jones: Theon of Smyrna and Ptolemy on Celestial Modelling in Two and Three Dimensions
- David Rabouin: Proclus’ Conception of Geometric Space and its Actuality
- Franco Farinelli: Subject, Space, Object: The Birth of Modernity
- Gary Hatfield: On Natural Geometry and Seeing Distance Directly in Descartes
- Douglas Jesseph: Hobbes’s Theory of Space
- Andrew Janiak: Mathematics and Infinity in Descartes and Newton
- Daniel Garber: Leibniz’s Transcendental Aesthetic
- Graciela De Pierris: Hume’s Skepticism and Inductivism concerning Space and Geometry
- Michael Friedman: Kant on Geometry and Experience.
