Mathematizing space : the objects of geometry from antiquity to the early modern age /: the objects of geometry from antiquity to the early modern age. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Vincenzo De Risi, editor.
• Editors: De Risi, Vincenzo
• Other Names: Conference on Space, Geometry and the Imagination from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham [Switzerland] : Birkhäuser
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 516.009; Mathematics; Geometry -- History; MATHEMATICS -- Geometry -- General; Geometry; Science -- History; Geometry; History of science; Geometry; History; Mathematics -- History & Philosophy; History of mathematics; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319121024; 3319121022; 3319121014; 9783319121017
• Related ISBNs: 9783319121017
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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