Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period

Chapter 1 Space, Imagination and the Cosmos, from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period: Introduction

Chapter 2 Aristotle’s Account of Place in Physics 4: Some Puzzles and Some Reactions

Chapter 3 The End of Epicurean Infinity: Critical Reflections on the Epicurean Infinite Universe

Chapter 4 Space and Movement in Medieval Thought: The Angelological Shift

Chapter 5 Mathematical and Metaphysical Space in the Early Fourteenth Century

Chapter 6 Space, Imagination, and Numbers in John Wyclif’s Mathematical Theology

Chapter 7 Francisco Suárez and Francesco Patrizi: Metaphysical Investigations on Place and Space

Chapter 8 Giordano Bruno’s Concept of Space: Cosmological and Theological Aspects

Chapter 9 Libert Froidmont’s Conception and Imagination of Space in Three Early Works: Peregrinatio cœlestis (1616), De cometa (1618), Meteorologica (1627)

Chapter 10 Questioning Fludd, Kepler and Galileo: Mersenne’s Harmonious Universe

Chapter 11 Imaginary Spaces and Cosmological Issues in Gassendi’s Philosophy