Akribeia: Certainty and Ontology of Mathematics in Alessandro Piccolomini's De certitudine mathematicarum

Álvaro José Campillo Bo (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-72413-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores Alessandro Piccolomini’s De certitudine mathematicarum (1547). It analyses the history of mathematical certainty and the ontology of mathematics delving into Piccolomini’s ancient and medieval sources. It accounts for Piccolomini’s Neoplatonic foundations in Proclus and Priscian, his philosophy of mechanics, and his critique of mathematical sciences.

Autor

Álvaro José Campillo Bo, Ph.D. (2023), University College Dublin, studies the early modern Latin reception of the Neoplatonic philosophy of mathematics and the ensuing epistemological, metaphysical, and scientific debates it provoked.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.3.2025
• Reihe/Serie: History of Metaphysics: Ancient, Medieval, Modern ; 6
• Verlagsort: Leiden
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 155 x 235 mm
• Gewicht: 1 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
• ISBN-10: 90-04-72413-3 / 9004724133
• ISBN-13: 978-90-04-72413-6 / 9789004724136
• Zustand: Neuware