The Spatial Reformation : : Euclid Between Man, Cosmos, and God / / Michael J. Sauter.

In The Spatial Reformation, Michael J. Sauter offers a sweeping history of the way Europeans conceived of three-dimensional space, including the relationship between Earth and the heavens, between 1350 and 1850. He argues that this "spatial reformation" provoked a reorganization of knowled...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Frontlist Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]
©2019
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Intellectual History of the Modern Age
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 34 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction. The Spatial Reformation
  • Chapter 1. From Sacred Texts to Secular Space
  • Chapter 2. The Renaissance and the Round Ball
  • Chapter 3. Divine Melancholy
  • Chapter 4. Eden’s End
  • Chapter 5. Modest Ravings
  • Chapter 6. Strangers to the World
  • Conclusion. Prosaic Reflections
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments