| Description |
1 online resource (331 p.) |
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Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science |
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History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern philosophy and science.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Atoms, Corpuscles, and Minima in the Renaissance: An Overview -- Chapter 2 Atomism in Sixteenth-Century Italian Commentaries on Lucretius -- Chapter 3 Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology -- Chapter 4 Pores, Parts, and Powers in Sixteenth-Century Commentaries on Meteorologica IV -- Chapter 5 Atoms, Corpuscles, and Minima in the Renaissance: The Case of Nicolaus Biesius (1516-1573) |
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Chapter 6 Mechanical Arts and Biological Development on the Sixteenth-Century World Stage: The Paracelsian Mechanical Philosophy of Petrus Severinus -- Chapter 7 Democritus in Francesco Patrizi and Giordano Bruno -- Chapter 8 Nicholas Hill, an English Atomist -- Chapter 9 Finite God and Infinite Space: Conrad Vorstius and David Gorlaeus -- Chapter 10 Atomism, Mechanism, and Chymistry in the Natural Philosophy of Walter Warner -- Chapter 11 Isaac Newton's Atomist Sources: The Case of Bernhard Varenius -- Bibliography -- Index of Names |
| Summary |
"The Renaissance witnessed an upsurge in explanations of natural events in terms of invisibly small particles - atoms, corpuscles, minima, monads and particles. The reasons for this development are as varied as are the entities that were proposed. This volume covers the period from the earliest commentaries on Lucretius' De rerum natura to the sources of Newton's alchemical texts. Contributors examine key developments in Renaissance physiology, meteorology, metaphysics, theology, chymistry and historiography, all of which came to assign a greater explanatory weight to minute entities. These contributions show that there was no simple 'revival of atomism', but that the Renaissance confronts us with a diverse and conceptually messy process. Contributors are: Stephen Clucas, Christoph Lüthy, Craig Martin, Elisabeth Moreau, William R. Newman, Elena Nicoli, Sandra Plastina, Kuni Sakamoto, Jole Shackelford, and Leen Spruit"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"This book is the result of a project entitled “Mysteries of Living Corpuscles: The Humanist Revival of Presocratic Philosophy and Atomism in Philosophy, Science and Medicine” of the Dutch Research Council (NWO)"-- title page verso |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Matter -- Constitution -- History -- 16th century
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Matter -- Constitution -- History -- 17th century
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Atomism -- History -- 16th century
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Atomism -- History -- 17th century
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Science, Renaissance.
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Atomism
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Matter -- Constitution
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Science, Renaissance
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lüthy, Christoph Herbert, editor
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Nicoli, Elena, editor
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| ISBN |
9789004528925 |
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900452892X |
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