Image, imagination, and cognition : : medieval and early modern theory and practice / / edited by Christoph Luthy, Claudia Swan, Paul Bakker, Claus Zittel.

• TeilnehmendeR: Lüthy, Christoph Herbert.; Swan, Claudia.; Bakker, Paul J. J. M.; Zittel, Claus.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections 55.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 323 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page --; Notes on the Editors --; Notes on the Contributors --; List of Illustrations --; Introduction /; Imagination, Images, and (Im)Mortality /; 'Imaginatio' and Visual Representation in Twelfth-Century Cosmology and Astronomy: Ibn al-Haytham, Stephen of Pisa (and Antioch), (Ps.) Māshāʾallāh, and (Ps.) Thābit ibn Qurra /; Minerva in the Forge of Vulcan: Ingegno, Fatica, and Imagination in Early Florentine Art Theory /; Bernardino Telesio on Spirit, Sense, and Imagination /; Giovan Battista Della Porta's Imagination /; Imagination in the Chamber of Sleep: Karel van Mander on Somnus and Morpheus* /; Agere Corporaliter: Otto Vaenius's Theory of the Imagination /; Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Views on Mathematical Imagination /; What Does a Diagram Prove that Other Images Do Not? Images and Imagination in the Kepler-Fludd Controversy /; Aristotelian Proportioned Images and Descartes's Dynamic Imagining /; Schematism, Imagination, and Pure Intuition in Kant /; Back Matter --; Index Nominum.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004365745
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Christoph Luthy, Claudia Swan, Paul Bakker, Claus Zittel.

How were the relations among image, imagination and cognition characterized in the period 1500 - 1800? The authors of this volume argue that in those three centuries, a thoroughgoing transformation affected the following issues: (i) what it meant to understand phenomena in the natural world (cognition); (ii) how such phenomena were visualized or pictured (images, including novel types of diagrams, structural models, maps, et cetera); and (iii) what role was attributed to the faculty of the imagination (psychology, creativity). The essays collected in this volume examine the new conceptions that were advanced and the novel ways of comprehending and expressing the relations among image, imagination, and cognition. They also shed light, from a variety of perspectives, on the elusive nexus of conceptions and practices.