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Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance -

Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance

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322 Seiten
2022
Brill (Verlag)
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The Renaissance witnessed an upsurge in explanations of natural events in terms of invisibly small particles – atoms, corpuscles and minima. The contributions to this volume attempt to explain this phenomenon, considering natural philosophy, medicine, alchemy and the recovery of ancient texts.
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
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
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