Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-52891-8 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 Atoms, Corpuscles, and Minima in the Renaissance: An Overview
Christoph Lüthy and Elena Nicoli
2 Atomism in Sixteenth-Century Italian Commentaries on Lucretius
Elena Nicoli
3 Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology
Elisabeth Moreau
4 Pores, Parts, and Powers in Sixteenth-Century Commentaries on Meteorologica IV
Craig Martin
5 Atoms, Corpuscles, and Minima in the Renaissance: The Case of Nicolaus Biesius (1516–1573)
Christoph Lüthy
6 Mechanical Arts and Biological Development on the Sixteenth-Century World Stage: The Paracelsian Mechanical Philosophy of Petrus Severinus
Jole Shackelford
7 Democritus in Francesco Patrizi and Giordano Bruno
Leen Spruit
8 Nicholas Hill, an English Atomist
Sandra Plastina
9 Finite God and Infinite Space: Conrad Vorstius and David Gorlaeus
Kuni Sakamoto
10 Atomism, Mechanism, and Chymistry in the Natural Philosophy of Walter Warner
Stephen Clucas
11 Isaac Newton’s Atomist Sources: The Case of Bernhard Varenius
William R. Newman
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.12.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science ; 36 |
| Zusatzinfo | 4 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 679 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-52891-1 / 9004528911 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-52891-8 / 9789004528918 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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