EAN: 9783030027643

SPACE IMAGINATION AND THE COSMOS FROM ANTIQUITY...

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. Readers may explore the work of a variety of authors
including Aristotle  Epicurus  Henry of Ghent  John Duns Scotus  John Wyclif  Peter Auriol 
Nicholas Bonet  Francisco Suárez  Francesco Patrizi  Giordano Bruno  Libert Froidmont  Marin
Mersenne  Pierre Gassendi  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Samuel Clarke. We see how reflections
on space  imagination and the cosmos were the product of a plurality of philosophical
traditions that found themselves confronted with  and enriched by  various scientific and
theological challenges which induced multiple conceptual adaptations and innovations. This
volume is a useful resource for historians of philosophy  those with an interest in the history
of science  and particularly those seeking to understand the historical background of the
philosophy of space.

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