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OverviewThe Renaissance witnessed an upsurge in explanations of natural events in terms of invisibly small particles – atoms, corpuscles, minima, monads and particles. The reasons for this development are as varied as are the entities that were proposed. This volume covers the period from the earliest commentaries on Lucretius’ De rerum natura to the sources of Newton’s alchemical texts. Contributors examine key developments in Renaissance physiology, meteorology, metaphysics, theology, chymistry and historiography, all of which came to assign a greater explanatory weight to minute entities. These contributions show that there was no simple ‘revival of atomism’, but that the Renaissance confronts us with a diverse and conceptually messy process. Contributors are: Stephen Clucas, Christoph Lüthy, Craig Martin, Elisabeth Moreau, William R. Newman, Elena Nicoli, Sandra Plastina, Kuni Sakamoto, Jole Shackelford, and Leen Spruit. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christoph Lüthy , Elena NicoliPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 36 Weight: 0.679kg ISBN: 9789004528918ISBN 10: 9004528911 Pages: 322 Publication Date: 03 November 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Atoms, Corpuscles, and Minima in the Renaissance: An Overview Christoph Lüthy and Elena Nicoli 2 Atomism in Sixteenth-Century Italian Commentaries on Lucretius Elena Nicoli 3 Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology Elisabeth Moreau 4 Pores, Parts, and Powers in Sixteenth-Century Commentaries on Meteorologica IV Craig Martin 5 Atoms, Corpuscles, and Minima in the Renaissance: The Case of Nicolaus Biesius (1516–1573) Christoph Lüthy 6 Mechanical Arts and Biological Development on the Sixteenth-Century World Stage: The Paracelsian Mechanical Philosophy of Petrus Severinus Jole Shackelford 7 Democritus in Francesco Patrizi and Giordano Bruno Leen Spruit 8 Nicholas Hill, an English Atomist Sandra Plastina 9 Finite God and Infinite Space: Conrad Vorstius and David Gorlaeus Kuni Sakamoto 10 Atomism, Mechanism, and Chymistry in the Natural Philosophy of Walter Warner Stephen Clucas 11 Isaac Newton’s Atomist Sources: The Case of Bernhard Varenius William R. Newman Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationChristoph Lüthy, Ph.D. (1995) is Professor of the History of Philosophy and Science at Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands). His publications concern mainly the history of matter theories and the development and logic of ‘epistemic images’. Elena Nicoli, Ph.D. (2017) is an Associate Researcher at the Center for the History of Philosophy and Science at Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Her research and publications mainly concern the reception of Lucretius and Epicureanism in the Renaissance. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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