Mathematizing Space (eBook)

The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age

Vincenzo De Risi (Herausgeber)

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2015 | 2015
IX, 318 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-12102-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book collects the papers of the conference held in Berlin, Germany, 27-29 August 2012, on 'Space, Geometry and the Imagination from Antiquity to the Modern Age'. The conference was a joint effort by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) and the Centro die Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi (Pisa).

Inhalt

Vincenzo De Risi: Introduction.- Henry Mendell: What’s location got to do with it? Place, Space, and the Infinite in Classical Greek Mathematics.- Jeremy Gray: A note on lines and planes in Euclid’s geometry.- Alexander Jones: Theon of Smyrna and Ptolemy on Celestial Modelling in Two and Three Dimensions.- David Rabouin: Proclus’ Conception of Geometric Space and its Actuality.- Franco Farinelli: Subject, Space, Object: The Birth of Modernity.- Gary Hatfield: On Natural Geometry and Seeing Distance Directly in Descartes.- Douglas Jesseph: Hobbes’s Theory of Space.- Andrew Janiak: Mathematics and Infinity in Descartes and Newton.- Daniel Garber: Leibniz’s Transcendental Aesthetic.- Graciela De Pierris: Hume’s Skepticism and Inductivism concerning Space and Geometry.- Michael Friedman: Kant on Geometry and Experience.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Trends in the History of Science
• Reihe/Serie: Trends in the History of Science
• Zusatzinfo: IX, 318 p. 33 illus.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: geometry of space • Greek mathematics • mathematics and philosophy • mathematics of space • theory of space
• ISBN-10: 3-319-12102-2 / 3319121022
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-12102-4 / 9783319121024