Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance

Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance

Nicoli, Elena; Luethy, Christoph

Brill

11/2022

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Inglês

9789004528918

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1 Atoms, Corpuscles, and Minima in the Renaissance: An Overview


?Christoph Luethy 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 Luethy





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





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Atomism; Corpuscularism; Lucretius revival; Physiology; Renaissance; early-modern; history of alchemy; history of medicine; history of science