Boundaries, Extents and Circulations, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016 Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Series, Vol. 41
Coordonnateurs : Vermeir Koen, Regier Jonathan
1. Jonathan Regier and Koen Vermeir, Boundaries, Extents and Circulations, Spatiality and the Early Modern Concept of Space. An introduction.- 2. Roger Ariew, Leibniz and the Petrifying Virtue of the Place.- 3. Vincenzo de Risi, Francesco Patrizi and the New Geometry of Space.- 4. Jean Seidengart, The Inception of the Concept of Infinite Physical Space in the Time of Copernicus and Giordano Bruno.- 5. Delphine Bellis, The Perception of Spatial Depth in Kepler’s and Descartes’ Optics.- 6. Mihnea Dobre, Experimental Cartesianism and the Problem of Space.- 7. Thibaut Maus de Rolley, Putting the Devil on the Map: Demonology and Cosmography in the Renaissance.- 8. Alessandro Scafi, All Space Will Pass Away: The Spiritual, Spaceless and Incorporeal Heaven of Valentin Weigel (1533-1588).- 9. Dana Jalobeanu, Francis Bacon’s Experimental Construction of “Space”.- 10. Luc Peterschmitt, The Circulating Structure of Space in the 17th century Chemical Tradition.
Koen Vermeir is an Associate Research Professor (CR1) in the HPS Laboratory SPHERE (UMR 7219) at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). As a historian and philosopher, he has contributed to a wide array of fields. His main interests are in the history of the imagination and in the interaction between religion, science and technology. Additionally, he works on historiographical and methodological topics and on science policy. He is currently a member of the Global Young Academy. After studies in theoretical physics, philosophy and history of science, in Leuven, Utrecht and Cambridge, he held research positions at the Fund of Scientific Research-Flanders, the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Harvard University, and Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. Vermeir was visiting fellow at Cambridge University and Cornell University, and visiting professor at the ETH Zürich. Vermeir is founder of and responsible for the research unit Histoire culturelle et interdisciplinaire des techniques (SPHERE) ; co-responsible for the research unit Recherches interdisciplinaires en histoire et philosophe des sciences (SPHERE) ; and former founding director of LIPSS, a science studies platform at the University of Leuven (Belgium). He is currently member of the editorial board of the journals Journal for Early Modern Studies, the journal Society and Politics and the journal Artefact : Histoire & techniques, and the book series Studies in History and Philosophy of Science and International Archives of the History of Ideas. His work has been published in six different languages.
Jonathan Regier is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is a chercheur associé with the HPS Laboratory SPHERE (UMR 7219) at the Centre National de laOpens up understanding of what space and spatiality could be and can be, and presents early modern space as a concept of enormous flexibility and centrality
Broadens appreciation of how spatiality can be constructed, over and above the canonical spaces of Newtonian and relativistic physics
Presents an integrative view of late Renaissance and early modern notions of space, and questions traditional historiography of the Scientific Revolution
Offers a wide scope of sources, disciplines, geographical areas
Offers a new perspective of canonical figures, like Kepler, Descartes, Leibniz
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Date de parution : 06-2018
Ouvrage de 273 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Date de parution : 09-2016
Ouvrage de 273 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Thèmes de Boundaries, Extents and Circulations :
Mots-clés :
History of space; Philosophy of space; Mathematization; Scientific revolution; Early modern; Renaissance; Space-time; Euclidean space; Imaginary space; Absolute space; Relative space; History of mapmaking; History of navigation; Infinite space; Diastasisi; Diastema; Locus; Spatium; Specium; Orbis