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Infinity and perspective

Auteur: Karsten Harries
Uitgever: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.
Editie/Formaat:   Boek : EngelsAlle edities en materiaalsoorten bekijken.
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"Two spirits preside over the book: Alberti, the Renaissance author on art and architecture, whose passionate interest in perspective and point of view offers a key to modernity; and Nicolaus Cusanus, the fifteenth-century cardinal, whose work shows that such interest cannot be divorced from speculations on the infinity of God. The title Infinity and Perspective connects the two to each other and to the shape of  Meer lezen...
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Genoemd persoon: Nicholas, of Cusa Cardinal; Leon Battista Alberti; Nikolaus, von Kues.; Leon Battista Alberti; Nicholas, of Cusa Cardinal
Soort document: Boek
Alle auteurs / medewerkers: Karsten Harries
ISBN: 0262082926 9780262082921
OCLC-nummer: 45263879
Beschrijving: xii, 380 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Inhoud: pt. 1. Power and poverty of perspective. Perspective and the infinity of the universe --
Learned ignorance --
Alberti and perspective construction --
Curious perspectives --
The thread of Ariadne --
pt. 2. Infinity and truth. Truth as the property of God --
The infinity of space and the infinity of man --
The infinity of man and the infinity of God --
Homo Faber: the rediscovery of Protagoras --
The dignity of man --
pt. 3. The loss of the Earth. Copernican anthropocentrism --
The crime of Bruno --
Insight and blindness of Galileo --
The reef of the infinite --
Copernican revolutions --
Epilogue: astronautics and astronoetics.
Verantwoordelijkheid: Karsten Harries.

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"Harries's well-positioned and clearly presented history of ideas will generate a great deal of controversy..."-- "Publishers Weekly"

 
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