{"product_id":"atoms-corpuscles-and-minima-in-the-renaissance-9789004528918","title":"Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Renaissance witnessed an upsurge in explanations of natural events in terms of invisibly small particles – atoms, corpuscles, minima, monads and particles. The reasons for this development are as varied as are the entities that were proposed. This volume covers the period from the earliest commentaries on Lucretius’ De rerum natura to the sources of Newton’s alchemical texts. Contributors examine key developments in Renaissance physiology, meteorology, metaphysics, theology, chymistry and historiography, all of which came to assign a greater explanatory weight to minute entities. These contributions show that there was no simple ‘revival of atomism’, but that the Renaissance confronts us with a diverse and conceptually messy process.  Contributors are: Stephen Clucas, Christoph Lüthy, Craig Martin, Elisabeth Moreau, William R. Newman, Elena Nicoli, Sandra Plastina, Kuni Sakamoto, Jole Shackelford, and Leen Spruit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents   List of Illustrations   Notes on Contributors      1 Atoms, Corpuscles, and Minima in the Renaissance: An Overview    Christoph Lüthy 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 Lüthy      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      Bibliography   Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210857570647,"sku":"9789004528918","price":143.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/atoms-corpuscles-and-minima-in-the-renaissance-9789004528918","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}