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Author : David C. Lindberg,Geoffrey Cantor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Optics
ISBN : OCLC:223539430
Author : Andrew E. Benjamin,G. N. Cantor,John R. R. Christie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Analysis (Philosophy)
ISBN : 0719014867
Author : David C. Lindberg,G. N. Cantor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Geometrical optics
ISBN : UOM:39015017232375
Author : Ruth Salvaggio
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Classicism
ISBN : 025201541X
Author : David S. Herrstrom
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683933649
In Light as Experience and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times, David S. Herrstrom synthesizes and interprets the experience of light as revealed in a wide range of art and literature from medieval to modern times. The true subject of the book is making sense of the individual’s relationship with light, rather than the investigation of light’s essential nature, while telling the story of light “seducing” individuals from the Middle Ages to our modern times. Consequently, it is not concerned with the “progress” of scientific inquiries into the physical properties and behavior of light (optical science), but rather with subjective reactions as reflected in art, architecture, and literature. Instead of its evolution, this book celebrates the complexity of our relation to light’s character. No individual experience of light being “truer” than any other.
Author : Katherine Tachau
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004451728
When William of Ockham lectured on Lombard’s Sentences in 1317-1319, he articulated a new theory of knowledge. Its reception by fourteenth-century scholars was, however, largely negative, for it conflicted with technical accounts of vision and with their interprations of Duns Scotus. This study begins with Roger Bacon, a major source for later scholastics’ efforts to tie a complex of semantic and optical explanations together into an account of concept formation, truth and the acquisition of certitude. After considering the challenges of Peter Olivi and Henry of Ghent, Part I concludes with a discussion of Scotus’s epistemology. Part II explores the alternative theories of Peter Aureol and William of Ockham. Part III traces the impact of Scotus, and then of Aureol, on Oxford thought in the years of Ockham’s early audience, culminating with the views of Adam Wodeham. Part IV concerns Aureol’s intellectual legacy at Paris, the introduction of Wodeham’s thought there, and Autrecourt’s controversies.
Author : Dan Burton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004153707
In this critical edition of Nicole Oresme's 14th-century treatise on atmospheric refraction, Oresme uses optics and infinitesimals to help solve this vexing problem of astronomy, proposing that light travels along a curve through the atmosphere, centuries before Hooke and Newton.
Author : Hackett
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004444812
This volume deals with the philosophy and thought of Roger Bacon. It is an effort to bring Roger Bacon studies up to date. Attention is given to a wide range of topics: Bacon's life and works, Bacon's contribution to the trivium (language studies) and the quadrivium (scientific-mathematical studies), his notion of a science, his moral philosophy, Bacon's contribution to medicine, alchemy, astrology, Bacon's positions in physics and metaphysics, an up dated bibliography of Bacon studies and a review of the state of Bacon Manuscripts. The volume situates Roger Bacon in the context of 13th century philosophy and thought, as well as demonstrating his importance for later thinkers. It is expected that it will be a major new contribution to Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Author : James M. Lattis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226469263
Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the standards by which Galileo's famous claims appeared so radical, and whose teachings guided the intellectual and scientific agenda of the Church in the central years of the Scientific Revolution. Though relatively unknown today, Clavius was enormously influential throughout Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through his astronomy books—the standard texts used in many colleges and universities, and the tools with which Descartes, Gassendi, and Mersenne, among many others, learned their astronomy. James Lattis uses Clavius's own publications as well as archival materials to trace the central role Clavius played in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian natural philosophy into an orthodox cosmology. Although Clavius strongly resisted the new cosmologies of Copernicus and Tycho, Galileo's invention of the telescope ultimately eroded the Ptolemaic world view. By tracing Clavius's views from medieval cosmology the seventeenth century, Lattis illuminates the conceptual shift from Ptolemaic to Copernican astronomy and the social, intellectual, and theological impact of the Scientific Revolution.
Author : G N Cantor,G.N. Cantor,J.R.R. Christie,M.J.S. Hodge,R.C. Olby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000158854
The 67 chapters of this book describe and analyse the development of Western science from 1500 to the present day. Divided into two major sections - 'The Study of the History of Science' and 'Selected Writings in the History of Science' - the volume describes the methods and problems of research in the field and then applies these techniques to a wide range of fields. Areas covered include: * the Copernican Revolution * Genetics * Science and Imperialism * the History of Anthropology * Science and Religion * Magic and Science. The companion is an indispensable resource for students and professionals in History, Philosophy, Sociology and the Sciences as well as the History of Science. It will also appeal to the general reader interested in an introduction to the subject.
Author : Ofer Gal,Raz Chen-Morris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226212982
Presents a perspective on the study of early modern science. This title examines science in the context of the baroque, analyzes the tensions, paradoxes, and compromises that shaped the New Science of the seventeenth century and enabled its spectacular success.
Author : David C. Lindberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0198239920
David Lindberg presents the first critical edition of the text of Roger Bacon's classic work Perspectiva, prepared from Latin manuscripts, accompanied by a facing-page English translation, critical notes, and a full study of the text. Also included is an analysis of Bacon's sources, influence, and role in the emergence of the discipline of perspectiva.
Author : David A. Grandy
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780253003621
Light -- our experience of light, our measurement of light, and the notion that light speed is constant -- can be understood to mark our interface with the cosmos. David A. Grandy's book moves from the scientific to the existential, from Einstein to Merleau-Ponty, from light as a phenomenon to light as that which is constitutive of reality. To measure the speed of light is to measure something about the way we are measured or blended into the cosmos, and that universal blending predetermines our measurement of light speed in favor of a universal or constant value. It's quite a trip, one aimed at scientists who have pondered light speed constancy, philosophers inclined to question the idea that mind and world are distinct, and scientifically or philosophically inclined persons who enjoy stretching themselves in new ways.
Author : Junko Theresa Mikuriya
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474254205
When was photography invented, in 1826 with the first permanent photograph? If we depart from the technologically oriented accounts and consider photography as a philosophical discourse an alternative history appears, one which examines the human impulse to reconstruct the photographic or "the evoking of light†?. It's significance throughout the history of ideas is explored via the Platonic Dialogues, Iamblichus' theurgic writings, and Marsilio Ficino's texts. This alternative history is not a replacement of other narratives of photographic history but rather offers a way of rethinking photography's ontological instability.
Author : Peter Dear
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780812281859
Seven science historians examine the historical creation and meaning of a range of scientific textual forms from the 17th to the late 19th centuries. They consider examples from the fields of chemistry, medicine, zoology, physics, physiology and mathematics.
