Global Perspectives on the History of Natural Philosophy – serie
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Sciences of Roger Bacon’s Opus Maius
Inbunden, 2025
2513 kr
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Through an examination of the Opus maius, Roger Bacon’s great scientific work of 1267, this book offers insight into Bacon’s understanding of the role of science in society and the study and practice of science in the later Middle Ages.Written at the request of Pope Clement IV (d. 1268), the Opus …
Dante’s Visions
Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond
Av Cecilia Panti, Marco Piccolino
Inbunden, 2024
2890 kr
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Dante’s Visions: Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond offers a fascinating insight into Dante’s engagement with the science of his time, particularly with visual perception and neurological disorders. The relationship between the soul …
Dante’s Visions
Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond
Av Cecilia Panti, Marco Piccolino
Häftad, 2026
812 kr
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Dante’s Visions: Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond offers a fascinating insight into Dante’s engagement with the science of his time, particularly with visual perception and neurological disorders. The relationship between the soul …
Colonial Scholasticism
Interpreting Nature, Society, and Philosophy in Spanish America
Av Abel Aravena Zamora, Nicola Polloni
Inbunden, 2025
2513 kr
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Colonial Scholasticism: Interpreting Nature, Society, and Philosophy in Spanish America explores the enduring influence of scholasticism beyond Europe, tracing its evolution in the intellectual and educational institutions of colonial Latin America.Far from being a mere extension of European …
Theories of Colour from Democritus to Descartes
Av Véronique Decaix, Katerina Ierodiakonou
Inbunden, 2024
2513 kr
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Theories of Colour from Democritus to Descartes investigates issues of the ontological status and perception of colours, such as: What is the nature of colours? Do they exist independently of the subjects who perceive them? And if so, how are they generated and how do they differ from one another? …
Theories of Colour from Democritus to Descartes
Av Véronique Decaix, Katerina Ierodiakonou
Häftad, 2026
706 kr
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Theories of Colour from Democritus to Descartes investigates issues of the ontological status and perception of colours, such as: What is the nature of colours? Do they exist independently of the subjects who perceive them? And if so, how are they generated and how do they differ from one another? …
Mathematics and Philosophy at the Turn of the First Millennium
Abbo of Fleury on Calculus
Inbunden, 2025
2513 kr
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At the turn of the first millennium, scientific and philosophical knowledge was far from dormant. Arithmetic, with its diverse calculation techniques and number theory, served as a bridge to philosophy, theology, and the study of the physical world. Even something as simple as a series of …
Mathematics and Philosophy at the Turn of the First Millennium
Abbo of Fleury on Calculus
Häftad, 2026
706 kr
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At the turn of the first millennium, scientific and philosophical knowledge was far from dormant. Arithmetic, with its diverse calculation techniques and number theory, served as a bridge to philosophy, theology, and the study of the physical world. Even something as simple as a series of …
Aristotle and New Spain
Inbunden, 2025
2513 kr
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This book is a detailed exploration of the Hispanic intellectual context and the different Aristotelian traditions that prevailed until the 16th century. Through a review and contextualisation of Aristotelian thinkers and texts, it argues that a unique Aristotelian tradition was formed in New …
Aristotle and New Spain
Häftad, 2026
706 kr
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This book is a detailed exploration of the Hispanic intellectual context and the different Aristotelian traditions that prevailed until the 16th century. Through a review and contextualisation of Aristotelian thinkers and texts, it argues that a unique Aristotelian tradition was formed in New …
Ten Follies: A Journey Around the World in Ten Forms of Madness
Inbunden, 2025
2588 kr
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Ten Follies: A Journey Around the World in Ten Forms of Madness focuses on a critical question in the history of psychiatry: to what extent does psychopathology describe phenomena that exist before or beyond their description? Marco Innamorati probes the view that any description of a …
Ten Follies: A Journey Around the World in Ten Forms of Madness
Häftad, 2026
727 kr
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Ten Follies: A Journey Around the World in Ten Forms of Madness focuses on a critical question in the history of psychiatry: to what extent does psychopathology describe phenomena that exist before or beyond their description? Marco Innamorati probes the view that any description of a …
Galen on the Atomists
Anti-teleologism, Theory of Matter and Medical Corpuscularism
Inbunden, 2025
2513 kr
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Personal physician of the emperors Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, and Septimius Severus, Galen was a multi-faceted intellectual and his extensive writings constitute, by far, the largest surviving corpus of any ancient author. This immense corpus is still not fully explored and continues to surprise …
Francis Bacon’s Natural Philosophy and the Laws of Nature
Av Silvia Manzo
Inbunden, 2025
2513 kr
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This book offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative account of the natural philosophy and of the conception of the laws of nature by Francis Bacon, one of the leading English reformers of natural science and an inspirer of the Scientific Revolution. The first part of the book focuses on the …
Materialism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Inbunden, 2026
2478 kr
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The word ‘materialism’ did not enter European languages until the seventeenth century. With a few exceptions, it was used to mock explanations of nature that dispensed with God, the soul and any purpose in nature. The thirteen chapters, written by leading specialists in the field, shed new light on …
