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Between Demonstration and Imagination

Essays in the History of Science and Philosophy Presented to John D. North

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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The essays in this volume reflect the wide-ranging interests of John D. North, distinguished historian of science and philosophy.Section One has papers on horoscopes, astrolabes and time-reckoning, and it includes an edition of a twelfth-century treatise on the astrolabe and surveys of astrolabes. Section Two is devoted to the study of the medieval cosmos. These contributions discuss Calcidian astronomy, astronomy in the Spanish Jewish community, the role of God in scholastic natural philosophy, and other themes. New information is presented about previously unknown scholars such as Abd al-Masīḥ of Winchester and Simon Bredon. Section Three contains essays on philosophy and scholarship in the early modern period, including pieces about commentaries on Boethius’s Consolatio Philosophiae in the Northern Renaissance, Spinozistic philosophy, and the early modern concept of substance.These essays take up the various themes to which John D. North has made important contributions: the development of scientific knowledge and methodology, the style of scientific and philosophical thought, and the uses of scientific knowledge in the making of instruments or the casting of horoscopes: this book will be of much interest to all historians of science and philosophy.Contributors include: Charles Burnett, Bruce S. Eastwood, Owen Gingerich, Bernard R. Goldstein, Edward Grant, Keith Hutchison, David A. King, Richard Lorch, F.R. Maddison, Lodi Nauta, Detlev Pätzold, J.A. van Ruler, Julio Samsó, Keith Snedegar, A.J. Turner, Arjo Vanderjagt, and G. Frederici Vescovini.

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Utgivningsdatum1999-04-28
Mått155 x 235 x 30 mm
Vikt810 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska, Franska, Tyska
SerieBrill's Studies in Intellectual History
Antal sidor426
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004114685

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Lodi Nauta holds a Royal Dutch Academy chair in medieval and Renaissance philosophy at the University of Groningen. He has published an edition of William of Conches' commentary on Boethius' Consolatio Philosophiae and is finishing a book on Lorenzo Valla. He has edited several books, translated Dante's De vulgari eloquentia in Dutch, and is the author of several articles on medieval and Renaissance philosophy and on Thomas Hobbes.

Due NorthContributorsList of IllustrationsSection One: Astrolabes, Horoscopes, and the Division of Time1. Bringing Astronomical Instruments Back to Earth- The Geographical Data on Medieval Astrolabes (to ca. 1100), David A. king2. The Treatise on the Astrolabe by Rudolf of Bruges, Richard Lorch3. Horoscopes and History: Ibn Azzuz and His Retrospective Horoscopes Related to the Battle of El Salado (1340), Julio Samso4. The Names and Faces of the Horus, Francis Maddison and Anthony TurnerSection Two: Medieval Astronomy, Cosmology, and Natural Philosophy5. Abd al-Masih of Winchester, Charles Burnett6.Calcidius’s Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus in Latin Astronomy of the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries, Bruce Eastwood7. Sacrobosco Illustrated, Owen Gingerich8. Astronomy in the Medieval Spanish Jewish Community, Bernard R. Goldstein9. God, Science, and Natural Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages, Edward Grant10. A Strange Fact About Aristotelian Dynamics, Keith Hutchison11. The Works and Days of Simon Bredon, a Fourtheenth-Century Astronomer and Physician, K.V. SnedegarSection Three: Early Modern Philosophy and Scholarschip12. A Humanist Reading of Boethuis’s Consolatio Philosophiae: The Commentary by Murmellius and Agricola (1514), Lodi Nauta13. Ist Tschirnhaus’ Medicina mentis ein Ableger von Spinozas Methodologie?, Detlev Patzöld14. ‘Something, I Know Not What‘. The Concept of Substance in Early Modern Thought, Han van Ruler15. Les Vite di matematici Arabi de Bernardino Baldi (Urbino 1553-1617), G. Federici Vescovini Bibliography of John D. NorthIndex of Personal Names