Space a history / edited by Andrew Janiak.
| Other author | Janiak, Andrew. |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020] |
| Description | xiii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Series | Oxford philosophical concepts Oxford philosophical concepts. ^A1258535 |
| Contents | Space in ancient times: from the beginning to Aristotle / Barbara Sattler -- Reflection: body space/city space: veiling as an embodied spatial practice / Banu Gökariksel -- Imagine a place: geometrical and physical space in Proclus / Marije Martijn -- Reflection: ants in space / Nicole E. Heller -- Concepts of space in the fourteenth century: works of Nicole Oresme and selected earlier work for comparison / Edith Dudley Sylla -- Reflection: space, vision, and faith: linear perspective in Renaissance art and architecture / Mari Yoko Hara -- Geometry and visual space from antiquity to the early moderns / Gary Hatfield -- Reflection: space for thought / Jennifer Groh -- Space in the seventeenth century / Andrew Janiak -- Reflection: chemical laboratory and the cosmic space / Mi Gyung Kim -- Space in Kantian idealism / Michael Friedman -- Reflection: non-Euclidean geometry / Jeremy Gray -- Reflection: a mathematical sculptor's perspective on space / George Hart. |
| Summary | This volume chronicles the development of philosophical conceptions of space from early antiquity through the medieval period to the early modern era, ending with Kant. The chapters describe the interactions at different moments in history between philosophy and various other disciplines, especially geometry, optics, and natural science more generally. Central figures from the history of mathematics, science and philosophy are discussed, including Euclid, Plato, Aristotle, Proclus, Ibn al-Haytham, Nicole Oresme, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Berkeley, and Kant. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022275877 |
| ISBN | 0199914125 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780199914128 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780199914104 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0199914109 (hardcover) |
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