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Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period

Part of the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Book Series (volume 48)

Editors: Bakker, Frederik A.; Bellis, Delphine; Palmerino, Carla Rita

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-02765-0

ISBN: 978-3-030-02764-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Feb 6, 2019

1 - 10 of 13 Chapters

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Chapter 1Space, Imagination and the Cosmos, from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period: Introduction

Bakker, Frederik A.; Bellis, Delphine; Palmerino, Carla Rita

Pages: 1 –9

[In this introduction, we explain our choice to approach the topic of space from a cosmological perspective, that is, by studying the conceptions of space that were implicitly or explicitly entailed by ancient, medieval and early modern representations of the cosmos, and the role that imagination...
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Chapter 2Aristotle’s Account of Place in Physics 4: Some Puzzles and Some Reactions

Algra, Keimpe

Pages: 11 –39

[This contribution focuses on Aristotle’s account of place (not: space) as it is developed in Physics 4, 1–5, a difficult text which has proved to be both influential and a source of problems and discussions in the ancient and medieval Aristotelian tradition. The article starts out by briefly...
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Chapter 3The End of Epicurean Infinity: Critical Reflections on the Epicurean Infinite Universe

Bakker, Frederik A.

Pages: 41 –67

[In contrast to other ancient philosophers, Epicurus and his followers famously maintained the infinity of matter, and consequently of worlds. This was inferred from the infinity of space, because they believed that a limited amount of matter would inevitably be scattered through infinite space,...
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Chapter 4Space and Movement in Medieval Thought: The Angelological Shift

Suarez-Nani, Tiziana

Pages: 69 –89

[This paper explores the contribution of medieval metaphysics to the development of the theories of space and movement through an investigation of some metaphysical conceptions of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. If treatises on the philosophy of nature – especially the...
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Chapter 5Mathematical and Metaphysical Space in the Early Fourteenth Century

Duba, William O.

Pages: 91 –106

[Medieval philosophers did not unequivocally support the Aristotelian doctrine of container-place, that is, that the place of a thing is the first immobile surface of what contains the thing. John Duns Scotus (d. 1308) famously developed a theory that tried to resolve the problems of...
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Chapter 6Space, Imagination, and Numbers in John Wyclif’s Mathematical Theology

Robert, Aurélien

Pages: 107 –131

[The aim of this paper is to show that John Wyclif’s theory of space is at once an interpretation of the Platonic theory of place and a Neopythagorean conception of magnitudes and numbers. The result is an original form of mathematical atomism in which atoms are point-like entities with a...
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Chapter 7Francisco Suárez and Francesco Patrizi: Metaphysical Investigations on Place and Space

Ribordy, Olivier

Pages: 133 –156

[At the threshold of the modern period the intense discussions generated by Aristotelian arguments on place and space gave birth to new scholastic syntheses, such as that of Francisco Suárez (1548–1617), but also some innovative theories, as can be found in the works of the humanist Francesco...
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Chapter 8Giordano Bruno’s Concept of Space: Cosmological and Theological Aspects

Granada, Miguel Á.

Pages: 157 –178

[Bruno’s concept of space remains constant throughout his entire work. Its main tenets are: (1) the rejection of Aristotle’s concept of ‘place’ as an accident of bodily substance and the ensuing notion of ‘natural places;’ (2) the notion of space as an infinite, homogeneous receptacle of matter;...
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Chapter 9Libert Froidmont’s Conception and Imagination of Space in Three Early Works: Peregrinatio cœlestis (1616), De cometa (1618), Meteorologica (1627)

Pantin, Isabelle

Pages: 179 –199

[Libert Froidmont defended a single conception of space in the three books he published as a professor of philosophy at the University of Leuven before, as a professor of theology, he became involved in a series of open controversies (against heliocentrism and in defence of Jansenius). This...
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Chapter 10Questioning Fludd, Kepler and Galileo: Mersenne’s Harmonious Universe

Fabbri, Natacha

Pages: 201 –232

[This chapter examines Marin Mersenne’s main objections to Robert Fludd’s, Johannes Kepler’s and Galileo Galilei’s views of the cosmos in order to delineate his own idea of space, as well as several significant changes in his interpretation of the universe. I will discuss how Mersenne sought to...

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