Boundaries, Extents and Circulations

Download or read book Boundaries, Extents and Circulations written by Koen Vermeir and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an important re-evaluation of space and spatiality in the late Renaissance and early modern period. History of science has generally reduced sixteenth and seventeenth century space to a few canonical forms. This volume gives a much needed antidote. The contributing chapters examine the period’s staggering richness of spatiality: the geometrical, geographical, perceptual and elemental conceptualizations of space that abounded. The goal is to begin to reconstruct the amalgam of “spaces” which co-existed and cross-fertilized in the period’s many disciplines and visions of nature. Our volume will be a valuable resource for historians of science, philosophy and art, and for cultural and literary theorists.