Titlebook: Boundaries, Extents and Circulations; Space and Spatiality Koen Vermeir,Jonathan Regier Book 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzer

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Francesco Patrizi and the New Geometry of Space,zi’s metaphysics of space shares several common features with other similar constructions (by Bruno, Campanella, and others) aimed at radically rethinking the notions of space and place present in Aristotelian traditions. The uniqueness of Patrizi’s proposal, however, is to be found in his attempt t

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The Inception of the Concept of Infinite Physical Space in the Time of Copernicus and Giordano Bruning the Copernican reversal, the apparent movement of the sky became pure illusion, while even the existence of the sphere of fixed stars lost its self-evident character. From there, the ancient argument in favor of the finitude of the universe (according to which it is impossible that an infinite t

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,The Perception of Spatial Depth in Kepler’s and Descartes’ Optics: A Study of an Epistemological Reticians of the 17th century, namely Kepler and Descartes. I show that, in his ., Descartes took up from Kepler’s . a psychological procedure involved in vision and consisting in a trigonometric operation. But, whereas Kepler had resorted to this procedure to account for the illusory, imaginary locat

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,All Space Will Pass Away: The Spiritual, Spaceless and Incorporeal Heaven of Valentin Weigel (1533–es. The aim of this essay is to explore his discussion of the nature of space in the treatise . (., 1576) in relation to his views concerning the Christian heaven and the resurrected body. Adopting the distinction between “l(fā)ocative” and “utopian” tendencies in religion drawn in the field of religiou

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,‘Borders,’ ‘Leaps’ and ‘Orbs of Virtue:’ A Contextual Reconstruction of Francis Bacon’s Extension-Rrtue.” These Baconian concepts are still not fully understood and are in need of a detailed analysis. They do not derive from a general conception of physical or mathematical space, and are not explainable in terms of parts of matter and aggregates. Instead, they are somewhat mysteriously defined in

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The Circulating Structure of Cosmological Space in the Seventeenth Century Chemical Tradition,seeds. My goal is not only to bring forward the longevity of this tradition—this is self-evident. Instead, I want to show how under diverse forms, the thesis of circulation allowed one to understand of how space was organized. In particular, I will look at the work of Joseph Duchesne (Quercetanus),

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1871-7381 y and centrality.Broadens appreciation of how spatiality canThis 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