Lüthy, Christoph
(ed.)
Nicoli, Elena
(ed.)
Editorial: Brill
Colección: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science
Número de páginas: 332 págs.
Fecha de edición: 03-11-2023
EAN: 9789004528918
ISBN: 978-90-04-52891-8
Precio (sin IVA): 149,00 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 154,96 €
The Renaissance witnessed an upsurge in explanations of natural events in terms of invisibly small particles – atoms, corpuscles, minima, monads and particles. The reasons for this development are as varied as are the entities that were proposed. This volume covers the period from the earliest commentaries on Lucretius’ De rerum natura to the sources of Newton’s alchemical texts. Contributors examine key developments in Renaissance physiology, meteorology, metaphysics, theology, chymistry and historiography, all of which came to assign a greater explanatory weight to minute entities.