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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. These contributions show that there was no simple ‘revival of atomism’, but that the Renaissance confronts us with a diverse and conceptually messy process. Contributors are: Stephen Clucas, Christoph Lüthy, Craig Martin, Elisabeth Moreau, William R. Newman, Elena Nicoli, Sandra Plastina, Kuni Sakamoto, Jole Shackelford, and Leen Spruit.

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Author:   Christoph Lüthy ,  Elena Nicoli
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   36
Weight:   0.679kg
ISBN:  

9789004528918

ISBN 10:   9004528911
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   03 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Atoms, Corpuscles, and Minima in the Renaissance: An Overview  Christoph Lüthy and Elena Nicoli 2 Atomism in Sixteenth-Century Italian Commentaries on Lucretius  Elena Nicoli 3 Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology  Elisabeth Moreau 4 Pores, Parts, and Powers in Sixteenth-Century Commentaries on Meteorologica IV  Craig Martin 5 Atoms, Corpuscles, and Minima in the Renaissance: The Case of Nicolaus Biesius (1516–1573)  Christoph Lüthy 6 Mechanical Arts and Biological Development on the Sixteenth-Century World Stage: The Paracelsian Mechanical Philosophy of Petrus Severinus  Jole Shackelford 7 Democritus in Francesco Patrizi and Giordano Bruno  Leen Spruit 8 Nicholas Hill, an English Atomist  Sandra Plastina 9 Finite God and Infinite Space: Conrad Vorstius and David Gorlaeus  Kuni Sakamoto 10 Atomism, Mechanism, and Chymistry in the Natural Philosophy of Walter Warner  Stephen Clucas 11 Isaac Newton’s Atomist Sources: The Case of Bernhard Varenius  William R. Newman Bibliography Index

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Christoph Lüthy, Ph.D. (1995) is Professor of the History of Philosophy and Science at Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands). His publications concern mainly the history of matter theories and the development and logic of ‘epistemic images’. Elena Nicoli, Ph.D. (2017) is an Associate Researcher at the Center for the History of Philosophy and Science at Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Her research and publications mainly concern the reception of Lucretius and Epicureanism in the Renaissance.

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