Mathematizing Space - The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age

This book collects the papers of the conference held in Berlin, Germany, 27-29 August 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).

List of contents

Vincenzo De Risi: Introduction.- Henry Mendell: What's location got to do with it? Place, Space, and the Infinite in Classical Greek Mathematics.- Jeremy Gray: A note on lines and planes in Euclid's geometry.- Alexander Jones: Theon of Smyrna and Ptolemy on Celestial Modelling in Two and 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 in Descartes.- Douglas Jesseph: Hobbes's Theory of Space.- Andrew Janiak: Mathematics and Infinity in Descartes and Newton.- Daniel Garber: Leibniz's Transcendental Aesthetic.- Graciela De Pierris: Hume's Skepticism and Inductivism concerning Space and Geometry.- Michael Friedman: Kant on Geometry and Experience.

Summary

This book collects the papers of the conference held in Berlin, Germany, 27-29 August 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).

Product details

• Assisted by: Vincenz De Risi (Editor), Vincenzo De Risi (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319379845
• ISBN: 978-3-31-937984-5
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 504 g
• Illustrations: IX, 318 p. 33 illus.
• Series: Trends in the History of Science; Trends in the History of Science
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries; Geometrie, C, Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, History, Mathematics, geometry, History of Science, Mathematics and Statistics, History of Mathematical Sciences