<span>This book on medieval and early modern corpuscular matter theories presents the research results of nineteen scholars, who show that his modern model of matter has some of its roots in physical, medical, mathematical, alchemical, and theological conceptions developed in the Middle Ages.</span>
Image, Imagination, and Cognition : Medieval and Early Modern Theory and Practice
β Scribed by Christoph LΓΌthy; Claudia Swan; Paul J. J. M. Bakker; Claus Zittel
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 339
- Series
- Intersections Series
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Multiple accounts of how theories of human psychology and of image-making influenced each other in a decisive period in the history of philosophy and art.
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