Mathematizing Space

The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age
Herausgegeben:De Risi, Vincenzo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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).

Produktdetails

• Trends in the History of Science
• Verlag: Birkhäuser / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 86326379, 978-3-319-12101-7
• 2015
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9783319121017
• ISBN-10: 3319121014
• Artikelnr.: 41431276

Inhaltsangabe

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.