Overview
- Opens up understanding of what space and spatiality could be and can be, and presents early modern space as a concept of enormous flexibility and centrality
- Broadens appreciation of how spatiality can be constructed, over and above the canonical spaces of Newtonian and relativistic physics
- Presents an integrative view of late Renaissance and early modern notions of space, and questions traditional historiography of the Scientific Revolution
- Offers a wide scope of sources, disciplines, geographical areas
- Offers a new perspective of canonical figures, like Kepler, Descartes, Leibniz
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (AUST, volume 41)
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“This book examines changing views of space in the later end of the Renaissance and the early modern period. … This work is for scholars interested in details concerning the treated figures and subjects and is not intended for general readers. Several contributions include illustrations … . Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.” (J. W. Dauben, Choice, Vol. 54 (9), May, 2017)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Koen Vermeir is an Associate Research Professor (CR1) in the HPS Laboratory SPHERE (UMR 7219) at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). As a historian and philosopher, he has contributed to a wide array of fields. His main interests are in the history of the imagination and in the interaction between religion, science and technology. Additionally, he works on historiographical and methodological topics and on science policy. He is currently a member of the Global Young Academy. After studies in theoretical physics, philosophy and history of science, in Leuven, Utrecht and Cambridge, he held research positions at the Fund of Scientific Research-Flanders, the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Harvard University, and Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. Vermeir was visiting fellow at Cambridge University and Cornell University, and visiting professor at the ETH Zürich. Vermeir is founder of and responsible for theresearch unit Histoire culturelle et interdisciplinaire des techniques (SPHERE) ; co-responsible for the research unit Recherches interdisciplinaires en histoire et philosophe des sciences (SPHERE) ; and former founding director of LIPSS, a science studies platform at the University of Leuven (Belgium). He is currently member of the editorial board of the journals Journal for Early Modern Studies, the journal Society and Politics and the journal Artefact : Histoire & techniques, and the book series Studies in History and Philosophy of Science and International Archives of the History of Ideas. His work has been published in six different languages.
Jonathan Regier is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is a chercheur associé with the HPS Laboratory SPHERE (UMR 7219) at the Centre National de laRecherche Scientifique (CNRS). He did his graduate work at Université Paris Diderot. His thesis and recent publications have focused on natural philosophy and the mathematization of nature during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is also pursuing research on the social integration and diffusion of new technologies.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Boundaries, Extents and Circulations
Book Subtitle: Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy
Editors: Koen Vermeir, Jonathan Regier
Series Title: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41075-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41074-6Published: 23 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82259-4Published: 16 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41075-3Published: 14 September 2016
Series ISSN: 1871-7381
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1958
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 273
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Science, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science