Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance /

Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance / / edited by Christoph Lüthy, and Elena Nicoli.

The 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 comme...

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Superior document:Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2023
TeilnehmendeR:
Lüthy, Christoph,
Nicoli, Elena,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science ; 36.
Physical Description:1 online resource (331 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Copyright page
  • Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Chapter 1 Atoms, Corpuscles, and Minima in the Renaissance: An Overview / Christoph Lüthy
  • Chapter 2 Atomism in Sixteenth-Century Italian Commentaries on Lucretius / Elena Nicoli
  • Chapter 3 Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology / Elisabeth Moreau
  • Chapter 4 Pores, Parts, and Powers in Sixteenth-Century Commentaries on Meteorologica IV / Craig Martin
  • Chapter 5 Atoms, Corpuscles, and Minima in the Renaissance: The Case of Nicolaus Biesius (1516–1573) / Christoph Lüthy
  • Chapter 6 Mechanical Arts and Biological Development on the Sixteenth-Century World Stage: The Paracelsian Mechanical Philosophy of Petrus Severinus / Jole Shackelford
  • Chapter 7 Democritus in Francesco Patrizi and Giordano Bruno / Leen Spruit
  • Chapter 8 Nicholas Hill, an English Atomist / Sandra Plastina
  • Chapter 9 Finite God and Infinite Space: Conrad Vorstius and David Gorlaeus / Kuni Sakamoto
  • Chapter 10 Atomism, Mechanism, and Chymistry in the Natural Philosophy of Walter Warner / Stephen Clucas
  • Chapter 11 Isaac Newton’s Atomist Sources: The Case of Bernhard Varenius / William R. Newman
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names.

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