Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
(Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Book 48)
by Frederik A. Bakker
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3030027643 | 291 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
(Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Book 48)
by Frederik A. Bakker
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3030027643 | 291 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
This volume provides a much needed, historically accurate narrative of the development of theories of space up to the beginning of the eighteenth century. It studies conceptions of space that were implicitly or explicitly entailed by ancient, medieval and early modern representations of the cosmos. The authors reassess Alexandre Koyré’s groundbreaking work From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (1957) and they trace the permanence of arguments to be found throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. By adopting a long timescale, this book sheds new light on the continuity between various cosmological representations and their impact on the ontology and epistemology of space.