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Mathematizing Space Vincenzo De Risi

Mathematizing Space By Vincenzo De Risi

Mathematizing Space by Vincenzo De Risi

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This book collects the papers of the conference held in Berlin, Germany, 27-29August 2012, on 'Space, Geometry and the Imagination from Antiquity to the Modern Age'. The conference was a joint effort by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) and the Centro die Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi (Pisa).

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Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age by Vincenzo De Risi

This book collects the papers of the conference held in Berlin, Germany, 27-29August 2012, on 'Space, Geometry and the Imagination from Antiquity to the Modern Age'. The conference was a joint effort by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) and the Centro die Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi (Pisa).

Table of Contents

Vincenzo De Risi: Introduction.- Henry Mendell: Whats location got to do with it? Place, Space, and theInfinite in Classical Greek Mathematics.- Jeremy Gray: A note on lines and planes in Euclids geometry.- Alexander Jones: Theon of Smyrna and Ptolemy on Celestial Modelling in Twoand Three Dimensions.- David Rabouin: Proclus Conception of Geometric Space and its Actuality.- Franco Farinelli: Subject, Space, Object: The Birth of Modernity.- Gary Hatfield: On Natural Geometry and Seeing Distance Directly inDescartes.- Douglas Jesseph: Hobbess Theory of Space.- Andrew Janiak: Mathematics and Infinity in Descartes and Newton.- Daniel Garber: Leibnizs Transcendental Aesthetic.- Graciela De Pierris: Humes Skepticism and Inductivism concerning Space andGeometry.- Michael Friedman: Kant on Geometry and Experience.

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NPB9783319121017
9783319121017
3319121014
Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age by Vincenzo De Risi
Vincenzo De Risi
Trends in the History of Science
New
Hardback
Birkhauser Verlag AG
2015-03-03
318
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