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Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-11-03
Mått155 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt679 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMedieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science
Antal sidor322
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004528918

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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.

ContentsList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Atoms, Corpuscles, and Minima in the Renaissance: An OverviewChristoph Lüthy and Elena Nicoli2 Atomism in Sixteenth-Century Italian Commentaries on LucretiusElena Nicoli3 Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance PhysiologyElisabeth Moreau4 Pores, Parts, and Powers in Sixteenth-Century Commentaries on Meteorologica IVCraig Martin5 Atoms, Corpuscles, and Minima in the Renaissance: The Case of Nicolaus Biesius (1516–1573)Christoph Lüthy6 Mechanical Arts and Biological Development on the Sixteenth-Century World Stage: The Paracelsian Mechanical Philosophy of Petrus SeverinusJole Shackelford7 Democritus in Francesco Patrizi and Giordano BrunoLeen Spruit8 Nicholas Hill, an English AtomistSandra Plastina9 Finite God and Infinite Space: Conrad Vorstius and David GorlaeusKuni Sakamoto10 Atomism, Mechanism, and Chymistry in the Natural Philosophy of Walter WarnerStephen Clucas11 Isaac Newton’s Atomist Sources: The Case of Bernhard VareniusWilliam R. NewmanBibliographyIndex