Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004528911 ISBN 13 : 9789004528918

Editeur : Brill, 2022

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christoph Lüthy, Ph.D. (1995) is Professor of the History of Philosophy and Science at Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands). His publications concern mainly the history of matter theories and the development and logic of 'epistemic images'.

Elena Nicoli, Ph.D. (2017) is an Associate Researcher at the Center for the History of Philosophy and Science at Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Her research and publications mainly concern the reception of Lucretius and Epicureanism in the Renaissance.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004528911
• ISBN 13: 9789004528918
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Éditeur: Lüthy Christoph, Nicoli Elena
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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