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Author : Stephen Clement McCluskey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Nicole Oresme on Light, Color, and the Rainbow written by Stephen Clement McCluskey and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicole Oresme
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Nicole Oresme on Light, Color, and the Rainbow written by Nicole Oresme and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Burton
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004153705
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book De Visione Stellarum written by Dan Burton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this critical edition of Nicole Oresme's 14th-century treatise on atmospheric refraction, Oresme uses optics and infinitesimals to help solve this vexing problem of astronomy, proposing that light travels along a curve through the atmosphere, centuries before Hooke and Newton.
Author : Aurora Panzica
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004463100
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Nicole Oresme, Questiones in Meteorologica de ultima lectura, recensio parisiensis written by Aurora Panzica and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicole Oresme was one of the most original and influential thinkers of the fourteenth century. He is best known for his mathematical discoveries, his economic theories, as well as his vernacular translations of cosmological and ethical texts that were undertaken at the request of King Charles V. This volume sheds light on the beginning of Oresme's scientific activity at the University of Paris (ca. 1340 – ca. 1350), a period of his intellectual career about which little is known. Over the course of this decade, Oresme lectured on many Aristotelian texts on natural philosophy, such as the Physics, On the Heavens, On generation and corruption, Meteorology, and On the Soul. Oresme's commentaries on Aristotle's Meteorology count among his only unpublished texts. This volume presents the first critical edition of books I-II.10 of the second redaction of Oresme's Questions on Meteorology. The edition is preceded by a historical and philological introduction that discusses the context of Oresme’s scientific career and examines the manuscript tradition.
Author : Carole P. Biggam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350193488
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Color in the Medieval Age written by Carole P. Biggam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cultural History of Color in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400. The medieval age saw an extraordinary burst of color - from illuminated manuscripts and polychrome sculpture to architecture and interiors, and from enamelled and jewelled metalwork to colored glass and the exquisite decoration of artefacts. Color was used to denote affiliation in heraldry and social status in medieval clothes. Color names were created in various languages and their resonance explored in poems, romances, epics, and plays. And, whilst medieval philosophers began to explain the rainbow, theologians and artists developed a color symbolism for both virtues and vices. Color shapes an individual's experience of the world and also how society gives particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Color examines how color has been created, traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years. The themes covered in each volume are color philosophy and science; color technology and trade; power and identity; religion and ritual; body and clothing; language and psychology; literature and the performing arts; art; architecture and interiors; and artefacts. Carole P. Biggam is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow, UK. Kirsten Wolf is Professor of Old Norse and Scandinavian Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Volume 2 in the Cultural History of Color set. General Editors: Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten Wolf The Cultural Histories Series A Cultural History of Color is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available as hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com . Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com .
Author : Katherine Tachau
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004451722
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Vision and Certitude in the Age of Ockham written by Katherine Tachau and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When William of Ockham lectured on Lombard’s Sentences in 1317-1319, he articulated a new theory of knowledge. Its reception by fourteenth-century scholars was, however, largely negative, for it conflicted with technical accounts of vision and with their interprations of Duns Scotus. This study begins with Roger Bacon, a major source for later scholastics’ efforts to tie a complex of semantic and optical explanations together into an account of concept formation, truth and the acquisition of certitude. After considering the challenges of Peter Olivi and Henry of Ghent, Part I concludes with a discussion of Scotus’s epistemology. Part II explores the alternative theories of Peter Aureol and William of Ockham. Part III traces the impact of Scotus, and then of Aureol, on Oxford thought in the years of Ockham’s early audience, culminating with the views of Adam Wodeham. Part IV concerns Aureol’s intellectual legacy at Paris, the introduction of Wodeham’s thought there, and Autrecourt’s controversies.
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0871692783
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (716 download)
Download or read book written by and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David C. Lindberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226482359
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Theories of Vision from Al-kindi to Kepler written by David C. Lindberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kepler's successful solution to the problem of vision early in the seventeenth century was a theoretical triumph as significant as many of the more celebrated developments of the scientific revolution. Yet the full import of Kepler's arguments can be grasped only when they are viewed against the background of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance visual theory. David C. Lindberg provides this background, and in doing so he fills the gap in historical scholarship and constructs a model for tracing the development of scientific ideas. David C. Lindberg is professor and chairman of the department of the history of science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Author : Stephen F. Brown
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461731836
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book The A to Z of Medieval Philosophy and Theology written by Stephen F. Brown and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Ages is often viewed as a period of low intellectual achievement. The name itself refers to the time between the high philosophical and literary accomplishments of the Greco-Roman world and the technological advances that were achieved and philosophical and theological alternatives that were formulated in the modern world that followed. However, having produced such great philosophers as Anselm, Peter Abelard, John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Peter Lombard, and the towering Thomas Aquinas, it hardly seems fair to label the medieval period as such. Examining the influence of ancient Greek philosophy as well as of the Arabian and Hebrew scholars who transmitted it, The A to Z of Medieval Philosophy and Theology presents the philosophy of the Christian West from the 9th to the early 17th century. This is accomplished through a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the philosophers, concepts, issues, institutions, and events, making this an important reference for the study of the progression of human thought.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004250255
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Nicole Oresme, Questiones super Physicam (Books I-VII) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oresme's commentary is one of the most relevant documents of the discussions at Paris University in the midst of the 14th Century. Original solutions concerning the main philosophical issues are associated with sharp criticism of the realist and nominalist positions.
Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039113408
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Chaucer and the Making of Optical Space written by Peter Brown and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author links Chaucer's writings with the medieval optical tradition in its various forms (scholastic texts, encyclopedias, exempla, vernacular poetry) both in general cultural terms and through the discussion of specific examples. He shows how the science of optics, or perspectiva, provides an account of spatial perception, including visual error, and demonstrates how these aspects of optical theory impact on Chaucer's poetry. He provides detailed and sustained analysis of the spatial content of narratives across the range of Chaucer's works, relating them to optical ideas and making use of Lefebvre's theory of the production of space. The texts discussed include the Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, Knight's Tale, Miller's Tale, Reeve's Tale, Merchant's Tale, Squire's Tale and Troilus and Criseyde.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1608 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1976 with total page 1608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Elihu Shapiro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521405076
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Fits, Passions and Paroxysms written by Alan Elihu Shapiro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-29 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shapiro reviews the formulation and reception of Newton's theories on the structure of matter and on fits.
Author : Robert Pasnau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198801785
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book After Certainty written by Robert Pasnau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No part of philosophy is as disconnected from its history as is epistemology. After Certainty offers a reconstruction of that history, understood as a series of changing expectations about the cognitive ideal that beings such as us might hope to achieve in a world such as this. The story begins with Aristotle and then looks at how his epistemic program was developed through later antiquity and into the Middle Ages, before being dramatically reformulated in the seventeenth century. In watching these debates unfold over the centuries, one sees why epistemology has traditionally been embedded within a much larger sphere of concerns about human nature and the reality of the world we live in. It ultimately becomes clear why epistemology today has become a much narrower and specialized field, concerned with the conditions under which it is true to say, that someone knows something. Based on a series of lectures given at Oxford University, Robert Pasnau's book ranges widely over the history of philosophy, and examines in some detail the rise of science as an autonomous discipline. Ultimately Pasnau argues that we may have no good reasons to suppose ourselves capable of achieving even the most minimal standards for knowledge, and the final chapter concludes with a discussion of faith and hope.
Author : Raz Chen-Morris
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027107731X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Measuring Shadows written by Raz Chen-Morris and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler’s radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how the seventeenth-century astronomer posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge. Chen-Morris reveals how Kepler’s ideas about the formation of images on the retina and the geometrics of the camera obscura, as well as his astronomical observations, advanced the argument that physical reality could only be described through artificially produced shadows, reflections, and refractions. Breaking from medieval and Renaissance traditions that insisted upon direct sensory perception, Kepler advocated for instruments as mediators between the eye and physical reality, and for mathematical language to describe motion. It was only through this kind of knowledge, he argued, that observation could produce certainty about the heavens. Not only was this conception of visibility crucial to advancing the early modern understanding of vision and the retina, but it affected how people during that period approached and understood the world around them.
Author : A. Mark Smith
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1606180762
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Optical Magic in the Late Renaissance written by A. Mark Smith and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume includes the original Latin text of Della Porta's "De Refractione" with English translation. Della Porta's volume explored optics at the time of the late Renaissance."--
Author : Henrik Lagerlund
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317066065
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Representation and Objects of Thought in Medieval Philosophy written by Henrik Lagerlund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notions of mental representation and intentionality are central to contemporary philosophy of mind and it is usually assumed that these notions, if not originated, at least were made essential to the philosophy of mind by Descartes in the seventeenth century. The authors in this book challenge this assumption and show that the history of these ideas can be traced back to the medieval period. In bringing out the contrasts and similarities between early modern and medieval discussions of mental representation the authors conclude that there is no clear dividing line between western late medieval and early modern philosophy; that they in fact represent one continuous tradition in the philosophy of mind.
