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Book SynopsisHow were the relations among image, imagination and cognition characterized in the period 1500 – 1800? The authors of this volume argue that in those three centuries, a thoroughgoing transformation affected the following issues: (i) what it meant to understand phenomena in the natural world (cognition); (ii) how such phenomena were visualized or pictured (images, including novel types of diagrams, structural models, maps, etc.); and (iii) what role was attributed to the faculty of the imagination (psychology, creativity). The essays collected in this volume examine the new conceptions that were advanced and the novel ways of comprehending and expressing the relations among image, imagination, and cognition. They also shed light, from a variety of perspectives, on the elusive nexus of conceptions and practices.
Trade Review"This book offers a wealth of thematic contributions concerning the status and role of images and the broader conception of human imagination, primarily in Renaissance and early modern Europe [...] in sum, Image, Imagination, and Cognition will be valuable for historians of science who possess a strong interest in images and a voracious appetite for philosophical aspects of imagination and cognition." Stefan Zieme, Humboldt University Berlin, in Isis 110.4 "The main task of Image, Imagination, and Cognition is to understand the variety of characteristics that the imagination accrued in the early modern period. Between 1500 and 1700 the relations among images, imagination, and cognition becomes a crucial topic for philosophers, artists, mathematicians, and astronomers [...] The essays collected in the volume trace the story of the imagination in early modern times through three perspectives: a philosophical inquiry (from Pomponazzi to Kant); an analysis of the role ascribed to this faculty in artistic creation; and the epistemological debate about the use of images in mathematical and astronomical treatises." Lucia Pappalardo, Università degli Studi di Salerno, in Renaissance Quarterly LXXIII.1 (doi:10.1017/rqx.2019.571)
Table of ContentsNotes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction Paul Bakker, Christoph Lüthy, and Claudia Swan 1 Imagination, Images and (Im)Mortality Sander W. De Boer 2 ‘Imaginatio’ and Visual Representation in Twelfth-Century Cosmology and Astronomy: Ibn al-Haytham, Stephen of Pisa (and Antioch), (Ps.) Māshāʾallāh, and (Ps.) Thābit ibn Qurra Barbara Obrist 3 Minerva in the Forge of Vulcan: Ingegno, Fatica, and Imagination in Early Florentine Art Theory David Zagoury 4 Bernardino Telesio on Spirit, Sense, and Imagination Leen Spruit 5 Giovan Battista Della Porta’s Imagination Sergius Kodera 6 Imagination in the Chamber of Sleep: Karel van Mander on Somnus and Morpheus Christine Göttler 7 Agere Corporaliter: Otto Vaenius’s Theory of the Imagination Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni, Aline Smeesters 8 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Views on Mathematical Imagination Guy Claessens 9 What Does a Diagram Prove that Other Images Do Not? Images and Imagination in the Kepler-Fludd Controversy Christoph Lüthy 10 Aristotelian Proportioned Images and Descartes’s Dynamic Imagining Dennis L. Sepper 11 Schematism, Imagination, and Pure Intuition in Kant Sybille Krämer Index Nominum
