Book ID: CBB843280666

Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age (2015)

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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).

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Review Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis (2016) Review of "Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 383-384). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Henry Mendell (2015) What’s Location Got to Do with It? Place, Space, and the Infinite in Classical Greek Mathematics. In: Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age (pp. 15-63). unapi

Chapter Jesseph, Douglas Michael (2015) Hobbes’s Theory of Space. In: Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age (pp. 193-208). unapi

Chapter David Rabouin (2015) Proclus’ Conception of Geometric Space and Its Actuality. In: Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age (pp. 105-142). unapi

Chapter De Risi, Vincenzo (2015) Introduction. In: Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age (pp. 1-13). unapi

Chapter Jeremy Gray (2015) A Note on Lines and Planes in Euclid’s Geometry. In: Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age (pp. 65-73). unapi

Chapter Andrew Janiak (2015) Mathematics and Infinity in Descartes and Newton. In: Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age (pp. 209-230). unapi

Chapter Franco Farinelli (2015) Subject, Space, Object: The Birth of Modernity. In: Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age (pp. 143-155). unapi

Chapter Alexander Jones (2015) Theon of Smyrna and Ptolemy on Celestial Modelling in Two and Three Dimensions. In: Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age (pp. 75-103). unapi

Chapter Graciela De Pierris (2015) Hume’s Skepticism and Inductivism Concerning Space and Geometry. In: Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age (pp. 255-274). unapi

Chapter Daniel Garber (2015) Leibniz’s Transcendental Aesthetic. In: Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age (pp. 231-254). unapi

Chapter Michael Friedman (2015) Kant on Geometry and Experience. In: Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age (pp. 275-309). unapi

Chapter Gary Hatfield (2015) On Natural Geometry and Seeing Distance Directly in Descartes. In: Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age (pp. 157-191). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Enrico Cinti
Boscarino, Giuseppe
Wright, Aaron Sidney
Welsh, Whitney Elizabeth
Vermeir, Koen
Verelst, Karin
Journals
Foundations of Science
Physics in Perspective
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Science and Education
Journal of Modern Literature
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Publishers
W. W. Norton & Co.
Springer
CSLI Publications
CNRS
Birkhäuser
Basic Books
Concepts
Physics
Space
Time
Mathematics
Philosophy of science
Relativity, general
People
Einstein, Albert
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Newton, Isaac
Euclid
Woolf, Virginia
Weyl, Hermann
Time Periods
Medieval
Ancient
Modern
Early modern
20th century, early
17th century
Places
United States
Greece
Germany
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