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).

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 (cogniti...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright page
• Notes on the Editors
• Notes on the Contributors
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction / Paul Bakker , Christoph Lüthy and Claudia Swan
• Imagination, Images, and (Im)Mortality / Sander W. de Boer
• '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 / Barbara Obrist
• Minerva in the Forge of Vulcan: Ingegno, Fatica, and Imagination in Early Florentine Art Theory / David Zagoury
• Bernardino Telesio on Spirit, Sense, and Imagination / Leen Spruit
• Giovan Battista Della Porta's Imagination / Sergius Kodera
• Imagination in the Chamber of Sleep: Karel van Mander on Somnus and Morpheus* / Christine Göttler
• Agere Corporaliter: Otto Vaenius's Theory of the Imagination / Ralph Dekoninck
• Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Views on Mathematical Imagination / Guy Claessens
• What Does a Diagram Prove that Other Images Do Not? Images and Imagination in the Kepler-Fludd Controversy / Christoph Lüthy
• Aristotelian Proportioned Images and Descartes's Dynamic Imagining / Dennis L. Sepper
• Schematism, Imagination, and Pure Intuition in Kant / Sybille Krämer
• Back Matter
• Index Nominum.