Cartesian Imagery : Picturing Philosophy in the Early Modern Age /
Cartesian Imagery is the first collection of essays entirely devoted to the role of images in Cartesian philosophy and science. Its seventeen chapters study a wealth of sources from across the most disparate disciplines - from printed treatises on astronomy to anatomical sketches, from students'...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2026.
Series:
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science ;
45.
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Call Number: D410
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Thinking with Images
- Mattia Mantovani
- 1 The Drawings in Descartes's Letters: from Autograph to Print
- Erik-Jan Bos
- 2 The Role of Images and Imagination in Descartes's Geometry
- David Rabouin
- 3 Breaking with Balance: Why Did Descartes Need Such a Complicated Image of the Lever?
- Jip van Besouw
- 4 Playing with Descartes: Images and Mechanics in a Card Deck (London, 1697)
- Ilaria Ampollini
- 5 Paradoxical Microworlds from Descartes to De Raey
- Christoph Lüthy
- 6 Imagining Matter: Form and Meaning in Descartes's Visual Language for Particles
- Wouter de Vries
- 7 Terra AB : Descartes's Imagery of Magnetism and Its Legacy
- Christoph Sander
- 8 Tam verba quam diagramma : a Visual History of the Fortune and Misfortune of Galileo's and Descartes's Theories of the Tides
- Carla Rita Palmerino
- 9 Depicting Cartesian Cosmology in the Seventeenth Century
- Mihnea Dobre
- 10 Pictured Hypotheses: from the Renaissance to Descartes
- Isabelle Pantin
- 11 La Dioptrique , the Retinal Image, and the New Optics of Descartes
- Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
- 12 Depicting Pictures: on Why the Retinal Picture was Puzzling (or Not) in Descartes, Scheiner, and Gassendi
- Delphine Bellis
- 13 The Medical Provenance of Cartesian Illustrations: History, Action, and Use in the Treatise on Man
- Gideon Manning
- 14 L ' homme / De homine : Images as Interpretations
- Gary Hatfield
- 15 Visualizing Cartesian Anatomy at Leiden University: Steno, Schuyl, De Graaf, and Swammerdam
- Eric Jorink
- 16 Through the Eyes of a Fish: Imagery of Nerves after Descartes
- Maria Conforti and Luca Tonetti
- 17 The Philosopher Fool: Decoding a Seventeenth-Century Caricature
- Mattia Mantovani
- Bibliography
- Index.