Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter TheoriesBRILL, 20. maí 2022 - 620 síður This volume deals with corpuscular matter theory that was to emerge as the dominant model in the seventeenth century. By retracing atomist and corpuscularian ideas to a variety of mutually independent medieval and Renaissance sources in natural philosophy, medicine, alchemy, mathematics, and theology, this volume shows the debt of early modern matter theory to previous traditions and thereby explains its bewildering heterogeneity. The book assembles nineteen carefully selected contributions by some of the most notable historians of medieval and early modern philosophy and science. All chapters present new research results and will therefore be of interest to historians of philosophy, science, and medicine between 1150 and 1750. |
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Corpuscles Atoms Particles and Minima | 1 |
Minima in TwelfthCentury Medical Texts from Salerno | 39 |
Roger Bacons Corpuscular Tendencies and some of Grossetestes too | 57 |
Ramon Lulls Theory of the Continuous and Discrete | 75 |
The Medieval and Renaissance Tradition of Minima Naturalia | 91 |
Void Space Mathematical Realism and Francesco Patrizi da Chersos Use of Atomistic Arguments | 133 |
From Ancient Sources towards Modern Science | 163 |
Corpuscular Matter Theory in the Northumberland Circle | 181 |
Honoré Fabri on Mixtures | 363 |
A Bridge between Matter and Motion Theories | 381 |
How Mechanical Was the Mechanical Philosophy? NonEpicurean Aspects of Gassendis Philosophy of Nature | 423 |
Mechanical Philosophies and their Explanations | 441 |
Gassendi Charleton and Boyle on Matter and Motion | 467 |
Boyle against Thinking Matter | 483 |
Corpuscularianism in Drafts a and b of Lockes Essay | 515 |
Chymical Corpuscularianism and Chrysopoeia in the Early Eighteenth Century | 535 |
A Reappraisal | 209 |
The Marriage of Protestant Metaphysics with Italian Natural Philosophy | 245 |
From Geber to Sennert | 291 |
Atoms and Causes | 331 |
Bibliography | 557 |
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List of Contributors | 611 |
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