| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 323 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Intersections: interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; volume 55 |
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Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 55.
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| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Notes on the Editors; Notes on the Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Imagination, Images, and (Im)Mortality; Chapter 2 'Imaginatio' and Visual Representation in Twelfth-Century Cosmology and Astronomy: Ibn al-Haytham, Stephen of Pisa (and Antioch), (Ps.) Māshāʼallāh, and (Ps.) Thābit ibn Qurra; Chapter 3 Minerva in the Forge of Vulcan: Ingegno, Fatica, and Imagination in Early Florentine Art Theory; Chapter 4 Bernardino Telesio on Spirit, Sense, and Imagination; Chapter 5 Giovan Battista Della Porta's Imagination |
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Chapter 6 Imagination in the Chamber of Sleep: Karel van Mander on Somnus and MorpheusChapter 7 Agere Corporaliter: Otto Vaenius's Theory of the Imagination; Chapter 8 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Views on Mathematical Imagination; Chapter 9 What Does a Diagram Prove that Other Images Do Not? Images and Imagination in the Kepler-Fludd Controversy; Chapter 10 Aristotelian Proportioned Images and Descartes's Dynamic Imagining; Chapter 11 Schematism, Imagination, and Pure Intuition in Kant; Index Nominum |
| Summary |
Multiple accounts of how theories of human psychology and of image-making influenced each other in a decisive period in the history of philosophy and art.-- Provided by Publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 25, 2022) |
| Subject |
Image (Philosophy)
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Imagination (Philosophy)
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Cognition.
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cognition.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Cognition
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Image (Philosophy)
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Imagination (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lüthy, Christoph Herbert, editor.
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Swan, Claudia, editor.
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Bakker, Paul J. J. M., editor.
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Zittel, Claus, editor.
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| LC no. |
2018031979 |
| ISBN |
9789004365742 |
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9004365745 |
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