Mathematizing Space The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age /

This book brings together papers of the conference on 'Space, Geometry and the Imagination from Antiquity to the Modern Age' held in Berlin, Germany, 27-29 August 2012. Focusing on the interconnections between the history of geometry and the philosophy of space in the pre-Modern and Early...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Risi, Vincenzo De (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2015.
Series:Trends in the History of Science,
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Vincenzo De Risi: Introduction
  • Henry Mendell: What’s location got to do with it? Place, Space, and the Infinite in Classical Greek Mathematics
  • Jeremy Gray: A note on lines and planes in Euclid’s geometry
  • Alexander Jones: Theon of Smyrna and Ptolemy on Celestial Modelling in Two and Three Dimensions
  • David Rabouin: Proclus’ Conception of Geometric Space and its Actuality
  • Franco Farinelli: Subject, Space, Object: The Birth of Modernity
  • Gary Hatfield: On Natural Geometry and Seeing Distance Directly in Descartes
  • Douglas Jesseph: Hobbes’s Theory of Space
  • Andrew Janiak: Mathematics and Infinity in Descartes and Newton
  • Daniel Garber: Leibniz’s Transcendental Aesthetic
  • Graciela De Pierris: Hume’s Skepticism and Inductivism concerning Space and Geometry
  • Michael Friedman: Kant on Geometry and Experience.